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Scarlet Veils of Perdition

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Chinese Theme version of "Heart across centuries: echoes of the silent abyss" Scarlet Veils of Perdition is a dark, atmospheric journey into a world where love, vengeance, Revenge, Betrayal, time travel, crime and fate are entangled in blood and betrayal.It shows the human capacity for both darkness and redemption. In a city veiled by shadows and secrets, a young woman marked by tragedy unearths a forbidden legacy hidden beneath centuries of silence. Bound by an ancestral curse and drawn into a clandestine society where power is bought with sacrifice, she must navigate a treacherous web of lies, love, and damnation. As her path converges with a tormented antihero who harbors his own demons, the line between salvation and ruin blurs. Together, they must unravel the mystery behind the scarlet veils—enigmatic relics that hold the key to a destiny drenched in fire and retribution. But the deeper they delve, the more the past tightens its grip. And in a world where sin wears many masks, the cost of truth may be her soul. update:2 chapters everyday

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Chapter 1Prologue: The bloods moon pact

Somewhere in the valley of forgotten dynasties, beneath a sky torn by the red glow of a cursed moon…

The wind keened through the ruins of Xiang Manor, where time no longer dared to move forward. Stone lanterns wept with moss, and the earth itself trembled beneath the weight of a vow never meant to be uttered.

She stood at the altar, nameless in this life, her red veil soaked with rain and sorrow. Her hands bled from the thorned rosewood rosary wrapped around her wrists—an offering of flesh to balance the price of fate.

"If time must steal him from me," she whispered, "then let my soul burn across lifetimes to find him again."

A single drop of her blood struck the jade pendant at her chest. It sizzled, split, and the ChronoKey beneath began to pulse—one heartbeat, two heartbeats, then silence.

The broken sundial above twisted in defiance of heaven, its shadow stretching into midnight though dawn was still hours away. A red moon swelled in the sky, and in the ruins' edge, a figure in black watched.

Eyes like obsidian. Skin like pale smoke. The man didn't move.

"You've cursed yourself," he murmured.

She turned, and beneath the veil, her eyes met his—full of knowing. Full of doom.

"Then we are cursed together."

And when thunder cracked the sky like a judgment, the world shattered.

Chapter 1-5 coming soon in few hours 🥰

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