Moonbound Sib

She broke a seal she was never supposed to touch. Now she belongs to a dead king who hasn't spoken his own name in three hundred years. When archive researcher Lian Mei cracks an unmarked jade seal in a forgotten tomb, she doesn't find a ghost. She finds a king — cold, controlled, and claiming her as his bride before she can put down her field notes. Bound by an ancient paranormal curse, a thread of her living soul begins crossing into his shadow realm with every night that passes. She has seven days before the Blood Moon rises and the bond becomes permanent. The problem isn't that Zhen Yao is dangerous. The problem is that he isn't. What begins as forced proximity and furious negotiation slowly becomes something neither of them prepared for. He is not the monster the living world remembers — he is a man who was murdered, erased, and imprisoned for the crime of refusing to be convenient. She is not just a random woman who touched the wrong seal — she is the reincarnation of the woman he loved, the soul the curse has been hunting for three centuries. And the more she learns about him, the less certain she is that she wants to be saved. Meanwhile, her fiercely protective older brother races through cursed forests and abandoned kingdoms with a feared spirit hunter at his side — a woman carrying a secret that could either break the curse or destroy everything they've fought for. Because the spirit hunter's bloodline didn't just witness what was done to Zhen Yao. It's responsible for it. Dark paranormal romance meets Chinese mythology in this slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers ghost romance novella — full of atmospheric dread, earned intimacy, and a love story built across the boundary between the living and the dead.