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The palace showed Phong his deepest wish: not fame or gold, but a warm hand holding his while reading poetry under a peach tree. The illusion placed Linh beside him, softer, mortal. Phong almost surrendered. Then he noticed—the phantom Linh had no poetry book. “Real Linh would mock my bad verses,” Phong said. “You’re fake.” The illusion shattered.
Slam. The doors locked themselves.
Phong saw the ghost of a young soldier he’d once failed to save in a past life. The soldier pointed at Linh. “He was that soldier. You left him to die on a battlefield.” Phong wept, but knelt before Linh’s mirror reflection and said, “Then let me pay this life instead.” The mirror cracked.
The palace hummed. Lanterns lit themselves one by one, revealing a long, red-carpeted hall. But instead of ghosts jumping out, a brush and inkstone floated toward him. A silken scroll unrolled, with elegant, chilling words: “Ngươi có duyên với chủ nhân nơi này. Hãy viết lời thề kết tóc. Nếu không, vĩnh viễn không được ra.” (You share a fate with the master of this place. Write a wedding vow. If not, you shall never leave.) Phong blinked. “I… I’m a broke scholar. I don’t even have a wife. Or a husband, not that I’d mind, but—wait, master ?!” ------- Ma Cung di Se Duyen Bl
Linh appeared in a wedding robe, no longer joking. “Last trial. Kiss me willingly, or the door opens. One is freedom. The other is me.”
Legends said the palace was alive. Its corridors shifted at midnight. Its walls bled black incense. And at its heart slept a Ghost King, , bound by a thousand-year curse: he would remain trapped until a mortal with a specific duyên (fated affinity) willingly stepped through the main gate.
Linh’s lips quirked. “Is it working?” The palace showed Phong his deepest wish: not
“Then write a vow for me.” From the shadows materialized Ma Thiên Linh . He was terrifyingly beautiful: long black hair like spilled ink, skin pale as jade, eyes crimson as blood-soaked peonies. A crown of bone and thorns rested on his head.
Genre: BL, Dark Fantasy, Horror Romance, Reincarnation Tags: Sentient Palace, Ghost King x Human Scholar, Cursed Love, Se Duyên (Fated Connection) Prologue: The Cursed Palace Deep within the mist-laden mountains of Độc Sơn, there stood an abandoned palace no living soul dared to enter. They called it Ma Cung —the Demon’s Labyrinth.
A cold breath brushed his ear. Then, a voice—low, teasing, and ancient—whispered: Then he noticed—the phantom Linh had no poetry book
The candles flickered.
“You really are the one.” He stepped closer, lifting Phong’s chin. “My curse: I must find a soul who willingly binds theirs to mine, not out of fear, but out of… se duyên . True affinity. I’ve eaten ninety-nine greedy cultivators. I’ve scared away ninety-nine brides. But you? You care about brushes.”
For centuries, no one came. Until one stormy night, a poor, stubborn scholar named stumbled inside, fleeing bandits. Chapter 1: The Uninvited Guest Phong was not brave. He was simply unlucky. With his bamboo backpack full of old love poems (which he secretly wrote but never dared to send), he tripped over the palace’s threshold.
And the red string of se duyên tightened around both their little fingers—fate finally fulfilled, even beyond death.
“You’re not afraid?” Linh asked, tilting his head.