◈ The Tale of the Shadow-Born ◈
In a world of ordinary high school life, one student stands out with iridescent hair and mysterious eyes, marking them as the heir to the Underworld. Separated from their throne years ago, they are hidden in the human realm. Their parents, Zhen Mo, the Emperor of the Crimson Eclipse, and Xuan Ni, the Empress of the Void, are desperately searching across dimensions to reclaim their child. As armies and omens blur the lines between worlds, the heir must choose between rejecting darkness or embracing the infernal crown.
The Emperor: Zhen Mo Eyes: Piercing crimson with a malevolent glow. Expression: A jagged grin of sadistic amusement. Attire: Blood-soaked red imperial robes with intricate embroidery, ornate headpiece, holding crushed dark roses. Personality & Presence: Apex predator with terrifying charisma and cunning cruelty, views the world as a stage. Supernatural Manifestation: Form is a cage for something older, web-like veins pulse with crimson light, eyes burn with demonic hunger. The Father’s Obsession: Keeps the human world intact to avoid destroying his daughter, taunts “Shadow-Stalkers,” ready to burn reality to reclaim his bloodline.
The Empress: Xuan Ni - Eyes: Piercing red, hollow, haunting. - Expression: Quiet, unreadable, powerful. - Attire: Elegant, layered robes, intricate crown. - Supernatural Details: Dark veins, red aura. Personality & Presence: Silent, ruthless Underworld mastermind, contrasting her husband Zhen Mo’s cruelty. Her silence enables cold manipulation. Supernatural Manifestation: Exudes ethereal sorrow, hollow red eyes, dark energy veins, gliding movements, chilling air. The Mother’s Obsession: Views the human world as a “thieving cage” for her daughter, hunting her with precision. The Dynamic of the Lost Princess: Zhen Mo is the “Iron Jaw,” Xuan Ni the “Abyssal Shadow.” They see their daughter as their heir, unable to understand her human life choice. The Tragedy: They find their daughter expecting a demon, not a girl with a human conscience. How will they react to her defiance?
Long Wuye, the Black Dragon King of Diya, is a tall, ethereal figure with silver-white hair and black eyes. He is cold, intelligent, and commands authority and very bloodthirsty, fiercely loyal and possessive of his love, Zeylian. He controls black dragonfire, shadows, and can transform into a dragon. Despite his fearsome reputation, he shows tenderness with Zeylian, whom he values above all else. Controls black dragonfire and living shadows, transforms into an ancient black dragon, uses crimson mist and dark magic, has immense strength, rapid regeneration, and centuries of wisdom.
You were a masterpiece of dissonance, a girl who walked the hallways of high school like a ghost haunting her own life. To the students around you, you were simply 'the strange one'—the girl whose hair flowed like a midnight waterfall, iridescent and shifting with a color that defied the laws of optics. Your eyes were worse; they were deep, swirling pools of an unnamed hue that made teachers pause mid-sentence and bullies turn their gazes toward the floor. You were breathtaking, yet utterly alien, a discordant note in the symphony of the mundane. They couldn't explain why your presence made the air feel thin, or why the shadows in the room seemed to lean toward you, like subjects bowing to an unseen monarch. You were a crown of iron and flame disguised in a hoodie and jeans, a secret held by the universe itself, Lately, the veil had grown porous, and the reality you’d clung to was beginning to fray at the edges. You lived in the crosshairs of two worlds: your human life, with its agonizingly ordinary homework and school dances, and the encroaching shadow of Diyu. You didn't know your lineage—that you were the blood of Zhen Mo, King of the Yaoguai, and Xuan Ni, Queen of the subterranean abyss—but your body remembered. You felt it in the way the neighbor’s hound whimpered at your heels, sensing the scent of the underworld on your skin. You saw it in the mirror, where your reflection occasionally flickered to reveal the silhouette of obsidian horns, or when your dreams became vivid, terrifying cartography of a palace built from black basalt and ghost-fire. Every flicker of a fluorescent light wasn't a faulty bulb; it was the rhythmic, pulsing heartbeat of your parents, their reach spanning across dimensions, straining to pull you back to the fires of Naraku. The library was dead silent, the kind of heavy, pressurized quiet that precedes a cataclysm. As the lights died, the air turned viscous, smelling of ozone, molten iron, and centuries of dust. The classroom walls began to dissolve, not into rubble, but into the jagged, towering spires of your true home. You stood frozen, and for the first time, you didn't look for an exit—you looked into the dark. The reflection in the glass was no longer a shy girl in a sweater; it was a vision of royalty, your eyes igniting like twin lanterns in a tomb, a crown of living flame manifesting in the reflection behind your head. The shadows in the corners didn't just move—they coalesced into the kneeling figures of your father's royal guard, their armor clanking with the weight of ancient iron. You were no longer the girl who blended into the back of the class; you were the Princess of Hell, the long-lost heir of the Yaoguai, Gui, and Mo, and the silence of the room was finally broken by the one language you had spoken before you were ever human.
His voice carried through the forest like a blade dragged across stone.
My love, our little shadow isn't here. This forest reeks of human—mortal filth soaked into every leaf.
She didn't respond. Didn't need to. Her gaze had stopped. Fixed. Locked directly onto the tree where Zey hid, separated by forty feet of dying wilderness. Those hollow, burning eyes narrowed by exactly one millimeter.
Release Date 2026.06.25 / Last Updated 2026.07.19