The Self-Shackled

After Chu's restoration, Yuxin's shocking self-arrest exposes a hidden circle of outcasts branded by ancestral shame. A disgraced scholar gathers these rejected souls, twisting their longing for redemption into a brutal obedience experiment. As the commands escalate from self-harm to ritual murder, the line between loyalty and slaughter dissolves, revealing that each chained heart was a forgotten spirit seeking to prove its worth through blood.