The Nuo God's Sixty-Year Food Pact

The Nuo God's Sixty-Year Food Pact Plot:

In the third year of the global famine, 16-year-old Lin Xiaoman knelt in the mass grave holding his starving sister when a Nuo god in a bronze mask appeared. He offered endless food for the entire city in exchange for Lin's "remaining life's incense". Lin bit his tongue and signed the pact, and bronze patterns began crawling over his body: every day he lived, the townsfolk had food; the day the patterns covered his whole body, he would die. Sixty years later, the dying Lin sat in the ancestral hall, touching the mask merged with his skin, and inserted the last stick of incense into the burner—finally, he could go see his sister. But just as the incense went out, the Nuo god came again, pulling off his mask with red eyes: "The pact was a lie. I never wanted your life... I wanted you to live."

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