short series

He and the Unreachable Romance of the Old Pact

share time: 2025-10-04 02:30:47

Lin Shen, an antique restorer, finds an old "Pact Record" from a Republic of China opera troupe at a secondhand bookstall. Inside lies a hand-drawn portrait of Su Zhao, an opera singer with a cinnabar mole at her eye corner, singing the "beautiful day" aria from *The Peony Pavilion*. Strange things begin: every midnight, the sound of a huqin comes from the attic. When he opens the door, he sees Su Zhao on the stage, laughing, "You're late again." It turns out Su Zhao's soul has been trapped in the old pact for 70 years. Back then, she made a promise with her lover A Lin: "After the troupe disbands, we'll go to Jiangnan together." But A Lin died in a fire saving the troupe's children before their appointment. Lin Shen flips to the last page of the pact and finds his childhood handwriting—he is A Lin's reincarnation. When he finally gathers proof of the troupe's disbandment to fulfill Su Zhao's old pact, he faces the cruelest choice: if Su Zhao wants to reincarnate, she must completely forget this cross-time bond...

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