Fate's Attendant

Hong Fei, a once-promising soldier, now limps through life with shattered cultivation and broken spirit. Seeking refuge in the exiled Duke Yu's household, he hopes only for quiet obscurity. But destiny intervenes when two enigmatic cards fall into his hands—one summoning a monstrous badger spirit, the other mending his supposedly incurable wounds. Arriving at the Yu estate, Hong Fei finds no sanctuary, only a house in crisis. The duke lies dying, the duchess conceals her own affliction, and predatory nobles close in on the unprepared heirs. Drawn into their struggle, the broken soldier becomes their unlikely shield against assassins and political schemers. Yet deeper forces stir in the shadows—someone is stealing fate itself, and the Yu family’s collapse is merely the first move. A crippled man must stand when no one else can.