yanbing
Every orthodox mage in the realm hunts restless spirits. They slay ghosts, purge corruption, and answer to the heavenly order.
No one saves the damned.
No one except Ning Yan.
He is the last wielder of forbidden clay magic, guarding an ancient kiln hidden in the old porcelain town. He traps lost souls in hand-thrown porcelain vessels, bearing the full karmic weight of every spirit he shelters. The world calls him a heretic. He calls it mercy.
When cursed relics begin unleashing old horrors across the land, Luo Yao, a girl born with the rare earth ley line bloodline, tracks the corruption to his door. She is the first person in a thousand years who does not see a monster when she looks at him. She sees the only man willing to save what everyone else wants to destroy.
But the orthodox mages are coming. They want the kiln burned. They want every soul inside erased. And they will burn the whole town to get what they want.
As the earth cracks and the dead rise, Ning Yan faces an impossible choice: let ten thousand souls be destroyed for a temporary peace, or sacrifice everything he has to redeem the world's forgotten ghosts.
A dark romantasy of forbidden magic, fated soulmates, and the quiet courage of choosing mercy over victory.