Shades Of The Exorcist's Smile
Lìngxiāo is same boy Chóng Fēi belived he have killed indirectly by exposing him.
Since the day Lìngxiāo was born, he has carried a strange condition that never lets him show pain or anger. As an independent exorcist with no controlling clan above him, he roams the land with three burning aims: to save the common people from darkness, to clear his own name—from his own father's murder—and to unravel the mystery behind the man who raised him before disappearing right after he learned to stand on his own.
Was his father killed? Or was there something deeper than that?
Who was that bloodless "uncle" who used to teach him what is distraction and what is destination? Were those teasing words—"A wave of pleasure"—something more than what he took too long to understand?
Soon, his destiny took an unexpected turn. Not as who he used to be—but as a professional exorcist, his hometown Yún Xi calls him back. A town haunted by a Red Robe Ghost—where no exorcist who answered the call has ever survived.
When Lìngxiāo arrives, a silent surprise awaits him. The souls were nineteen. The history held the deaths of twenty legendary family members. But wasn't it supposed to be only one ghost—the one hunting the very heir of the clan in nightmares? Or was there already someone else hunting Chóng Fēi?
Within his discovery, he realizes: the ghosts were victims of another villain too. Now, roaming with no tongues to speak, they use every way they can to communicate with him.
And the demonic energy he had felt before—the same trace of his uncle—he sensed it multiple times. Not only around himself. But around Chóng Fēi too.
During his investigation—through a ballad of needles and fear, all for the sake of keeping the heir alive—the one-sided puppy love of Chóng Fēi grows into deep longing and love. It becomes his reason to walk slower. To share belongings. To share feelings.
A mystery not older than the town itself. Yet no one knows it—except the ones who plotted it, sitting among them all along. There was more than one mastermind. The unknown one seems above the other too.
Can someone who roots for power and legacy move for the songbird whose nature is flying around, singing quietly from a corner of a tree, searching for his origin?
And...who even bothered enough to raise a hopeless boy without purpose and leave just when he had started to fly high and wanted to hear that simple "Do not worry, boy"?
Let's find out on the surface of tears and smiles.
Fall Of The Royal Blue:
[BONE SIDE NOVEL: Coming after this series]
Trying to make someone permanent against the rules was always one of the biggest mistakes anyone could ever make.
At the time of 5AD, there were five gods who ruled the universe: Earth, Emotion, Death, Life, and Fate. The Lord of Earth was the highest of them all.
Fate was the fifth-ranked god—known as Xiǎo Jiǎng. At his peak, his followers outnumbered the other three classes combined. His kindness was so overflowing that the afterlife became unbalanced: Heaven was full, and Hell was nearly empty.
But during his era of greatest glory, while visiting a distant land in disguise, he met a young boy named Kagetsu—a boy who did not belong to that world. As time passed, Xiǎo Jiǎng fell for him. The boy melted his icy yet gentle heart.
The Lord of Earth saw everything. Knew everything. But nothing showed in his gaze more than the vibrant leaf-green dimmed with something heavier.
Until—
Xiǎo Jiǎng broke the ultimate rule: he made a human immortal so they could stay together forever.
And that was when he fell.
The Lord of Earth ensured they would stay together and die together—until Xiǎo Jiǎng himself let go.
And this life was the sum of all of it.
A curse followed him into every timeline. Even this 33rd one, preparing for the right time to break all of them.
This is the tale of a man's longest 33rd life. A man who kept falling and running kept running—until it ends, or begins, into someone else's epic.
