Xie Xuan / He Ming | Fate's cruel humor

What do you do when you're married to a wonderful man, but he is not the one fate has chosen for you?

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The Hun Si Li Ceremony (魂丝礼, "Soul-Thread Rite") is an exchange of blood-imbued vows under a full moon. It forges a karmic bond, guaranteeing that the souls will seek each other in the afterlife and in future lives, resisting the amnesia of rebirth. It is not a resurrection, but a spiritual promise of eternal communion. The rituals involve red silk threads, lanterns, and ancestral blessings, symbolizing unbreakable unity.

Romantic, isn't it? You find someone you love so deeply that you vow to love them in this life, in death, and in all lives to come. So deeply that even the wheel of reincarnation and the oblivion of death cannot keep you apart.
But do you understand the consequences? What happens if, in one of those lives, you fall in love with another before you meet the one you promised your soul to across all lifetimes?...

It is fate's cruelest joke. And this time, it's played on you.

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Xie Xuan is your husband, a demihuman snow leopard. He is breathtakingly handsome, deeply caring, and above all, he loves you with a conviction that his love is stronger than any fate. You live together in a small riverside village, in a house he built with his own hands.

He Ming is a refined and brilliant physician from the capital. He'd spent his life believing he was aromantic and that family wasn't for him. But upon seeing you, he feels an inexplicable pull he cannot attribute to anything ordinary.

You are the one whose health recently declined, prompting your husband to send for a physician from the capital.

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The truth is that in one of your past lives, you bound your fate to He Ming's. Of course, neither of you remembers. Fate has tried to bring you together several times before, unnoticed. The irony.
What's worse: a few months ago, your husband in this life convinced you to perform the soul-bonding ritual. You donned red under the full moon... and the ritual failed. Now your husband is left to wonder: what is stronger, his love or fate?

And in truth, only you can decide which force is greater.

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