I'm not going to lie, there was a moment in Chapter 2 that actually got to me. When Qiao Yu finally finds the jade bracelet in the bottom drawer of Qiao Xiang's room, the text says her heart raced and her hands trembled. Not because she's scared, but because this bracelet was the last tangible connection to her biological mother—the one person who actually loved her before everything fell apart. "Only after holding the jade bracelet did Qiao Yu let out a deep sigh of relief." That sigh. That's the whole emotional core of the first two chapters right there. Everything else—the revenge, the money, the spatial dimension—is secondary. At her core, this is a story about a girl who lost her mother and has been surviving in a family that treats her like an outsider. The bracelet represents her mother's love, and the fact that her stepsister stole it and unlocked its secret first? That's the real injustice. I also appreciated the emotional beat when Qiao Yu calls Liu Shuhong "Aunt Liu" instead of "Mom." It's a small detail but it carries so much weight. She's maintaining a polite distance, refusing to acknowledge any familial bond with the woman who's been poisoning her life. The father-daughter relationship is where the emotional complexity really shines though. Qiao Yu puts on an "obedient act" when asking him to sign the severance document, and the text notes that Qiao Zhenhua feels a "complex mix of emotions." He's being manipulated, sure, but there's also a flicker of genuine paternal feeling underneath all that selfishness. That ambiguity makes the relationship feel real.
I am not okay. I am genuinely not okay with this book. Xu Zhitao comes home after five years—after dying, after becoming a ghost, after watching her own life from the outside—and the first thing her cousins do is bring her a bowl of wild berries. Just... berries. From the mountain. They remembered she loved them when she was little. That's it. That's the entire gesture and it completely destroyed me. "Did you miss your brothers?" Changsong asks, and she says "I did. I also missed going up the mountain with you, climbing trees, and stealing bird eggs." Five years of absence compressed into one sentence and I was wrecked. But then—then Zhang Zhaodi looks at her like she's a stranger. And Xu Zhitao goes home and can't sleep. She's tossing and turning over something the adults are also tossing and turning over, except she's ten years old and she doesn't have the vocabulary to process it. So she just lies there. What kills me most is that she still defends her. When the Old Lady explains what happened with the lost pregnancy, Xu Zhitao doesn't rage. She doesn't demand justice. She says "Of course I know. Second Aunt was good to me. She always gave me her treats." She holds onto the love because letting it go would mean losing the only mother figure she ever had twice. And then there's the scene with Xu Yongze. She's sitting on the floor surrounded by fabric bundles—over two thousand kilometers of fabric her mother sent instead of love—and instead of being bitter, she makes a joke. "She's finally being generous for once, so it's basically all free." She turns loss into laughter. That's not optimism—that's survival. The most emotionally raw moment though? When she asks the Old Lady, voice barely above a whisper: "Grandma, I want to ask... does Second Aunt hate me now?" She doesn't say "did I do something wrong." She doesn't blame herself. She asks if she's hated. There's a difference. And the Old Lady's answer—"It has nothing to do with you, a child. You were just caught up in it"—should have been enough. But it isn't. Because a ten-year-old doesn't need logic. She needs her aunt to look at her the way she used to. I need the mountain scenes. I need her climbing trees and stealing bird eggs and forgetting, even for a moment, that she's a ghost who came back to life. I need her to be a kid again.
Okay, now I'm curious about what will happen to Derek, your writing is quite neat, and the delivery is quite good and easy to understand, and and I'm curious about what will happen next, keep fighting.
So the author needs to quit his job or whatever he's doing and give me more damn chapters. I'm hooked! Julia already waifu <3
So far so good. I love the setting and magic system of this world which is simple yet good.Going to let the chapters build up before reading again.
I like how the story has progressed so far but it’s also quite confusing as you don’t exactly understand what’s going on. But LOOKS like a fantastic read, so I will keep on reading.
When's the next chapter?!! ? I love your stories bro
Decent enough. I’ll keep checking up on this story.
This is a very good book and i enjoyed it so much. Thanks for the writing Mr.Author
good book with excellent story development
Exceptional and well written in many ways, the worldbuilding is the novels strongest aspect, and it gets better do not drop, this is a really good series
Good book enjoy it! Keep up the good work