Fate Picks the Wrong Master

Cen Chaoran stitches silk with blood on his sleeve and a beast curled under his coat. He is the young master of a demon clan, but his house runs on rules, payments, and hard choices that keep weak people alive. When he takes in a legendary creature that should have been dead, he starts building a masterwork tapestry one careful strip at a time. The cloth grows beside his power training, and so does his sense that the righteous schools outside his gates lie better than his own people do. Harvest carts, market fruit, and quiet roads all move around him while he carries a beast that trusts his hands. The first thread he ties is the one that pulls the whole house into view. The person who gave h...