A Thousand Years of Beast Bonds

Li Yuchen had already watched his seal crack when the day started to get strange. He handled beast contracts for a living, which meant he knew where people lied, where they flinched, and what they would trade away to save their pride. That skill made him useful and dangerous, but it did not make his life easy. His first bond was a legendary beast that chose him on its own, and other tamers could not understand why it stayed so close or why it obeyed only half the time. He kept a company key in his jacket, a sealed ticket in his apartment safe, and a handbook wrapped in cloth like a secret he had not earned. He was trying to pass the licensing exam while his own past kept turning inside out. ...