Inside the microscopic marrow-world of fourteen-year-old Gu Nian’s spine, the invading crimson tentacle of Golden Heir Gu Wuji’s [Midnight Bloodline Slave & Marrow-Boiling Curse] froze in total, existential confusion!
Why?
Because according to the original tragic webnovel’s programming—and the eighty-thousand-year design of Butler Gu Gui’s forbidden altar. The Bloodline Slave Curse was a parasitic karmic hex that required three specific internal fuels inside the victim’s spine in order to ignite:
1. [Chronic Childhood Starvation & Bone-Chill] (from sleeping on cold stone floors without a blanket or a hot meal);
2. [Parental Abandonment & Orphan Despair] (from watching one’s father die on Page Three and one’s mother vanish into prison);
3. [Blackened Resentment Toward the World] (a Darkening Index of at least 80%!).
In the original timeline where Gu Changsheng died in Frost-Pine Town, fourteen-year-old Gu Nian had all three of those tragic fuels in spades. Which was why the curse in the original book had easily enslaved his soul and pried his bone out!
Yet as the crimson curse tentacle looked around inside the real fourteen-year-old Gu Nian’s marrow tonight—
