short series

Echoes of the Embers

share time: 2026-01-06 00:31:02

Lin Ran, a down-and-out office worker who worked overtime until he vomited, was hit by the "Ember System" right after leaving the office building—collect the residual souls of 99 ancient cultivators within three months, or dissipate on the spot. His first target is Su Wan, an icy girl running a stationery store in an old alley. She seems cold, but is actually the reincarnation of an ancient sword cultivator's embers, hiding a sword heart that can split the void, and suppressing her celestial power riots by touching a peach wood pen daily. To survive, Lin Ran starts an "office worker-style entanglement": mistaken for a salesman when buying soybean milk, almost cut by a sword for breaking her treasured pen, accidentally bending a streetlight into a twist with system power while protecting her from hooligans... From mutual dislike to mutual rescue, they discover Su Wan is searching for the "Sword Master" who sealed her years ago, and Lin Ran's system is exactly the spirit of that sword! When an office worker's will to live collides with a sword cultivator's obsession, in this "Ember Game", who is calculating whom? And who falls in love first?

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