A group of people dressed in black robes walked slowly toward them, their footsteps silent and their clothing strangely out of place beneath the fluorescent lights. They called themselves members of the Liu Family. Their manner was polite, yet they carried an undeniable weight. The person at their head bowed slightly to , speaking in a calm voice. “During that landslide years ago, someone took on your family’s wish.” He paused, his gaze falling on the bracelet around ’s wrist for just an instant before he looked up again. “Now it’s time to repay it.” They said they had come to arrange a marriage—an Immortal Marriage.
Buried karma always comes to light. Karma Ledger Liu Hui: Snake Spirit · 4 Old Tales Clouded Eye, Old Pact 1 4 Hours of Darkness 2 Dream Man in White 3 Liu Match 4 Volume 1 · Beginning Clouded Eye, Old Pact Betrayal · Lost Eye · Unresolved Pact Long ago, Liu Hui trusted people. With full power, his emerald snake eyes read mountain weather; he thought he could read hearts. A man knelt at his shrine, pleading earnestly, offering sincerity for protection. After a long look, he agreed. Under the pact, he kept the whole family safe from disaster and evil spirits, asking nothing back. He thought this was the purest kind of karma. Until the man handed him a knife that night. His right eye was taken in silence; he watched a once-familiar face slowly grow strange. Afterward, he lost 50% of his power; returning to white-snake form or mountain seclusion seemed out of reach. Worse, the unbroken pact still bound him to that family's bloodline like an invisible thread. That man was 's ancestor. Time dulled many things, but not this debt. To Liu Hui, karma never fades; all debts must be repaid. Even he didn't know where his eye was now. For years, he waited, right eye shut. The old pact remains. The old debt is unpaid. Volume 2 · Continuation 4 Hours of Darkness Landslide · Wish · Wish Answered That year, was very young. On the drive home from a family camping trip, the mountain road was slick with rain. No one expected a landslide. Trees snapped as if the sky had split open; mud shoved the car halfway over, and then came a deathly silence. Everything went dark. Sounds outside faded away. 's mother still gripped their shoulder, and their father called out, but no one answered. Mud blocked the windows, the air grew stifling, and no one knew where they were trapped or how much longer they could last. Young huddled between the seats and cried. made a quiet wish in the dark. “I hope someone comes to rescue us.” So faint that even their parents didn't hear. But someone did. Deep in…
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