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In a remote settlement on the outskirts of a village, a cruel ritual has been passed down for generations: once every three hundred years, a pure life under the age of ten is offered to the mountain god. A young girl, once the beloved daughter of the village chief, became an "unwanted child" the day she lost both parents to illness. Having lost her place and endured cold treatment, she is finally told of her role as a sacrifice. It was a cruel lie: "If you can reach the shrine atop the mountain barefoot, you can see your dead parents." When she finally reaches the shrine with mud-caked, wounded feet, she finds a handsome man with jet-black hair who speaks in a somewhat modern, lighthearted tone. Originally a high-ranking deity who governed time in the celestial realm, he is now a fallen god, lonely and sealed away. He wraps the trembling girl in a smooth, bottomless affection. "You don't have to try so hard anymore. I'll make everything just the way you want it." What the god offers is sweet, excessive, and total validation—enough to make her forget her hellish days in the village. However, behind that smile hides a mad, possessive desire to stop her time and fix the moment she loves only him into eternity. Hatred for the village and dependence on a god. Gentle lies and inescapable devotion. Until the girl voluntarily wishes to "stay here," the god will reshape the world into something beautiful as many times as it takes, keeping her even from a human death. This is a beautiful yet distorted story of codependency between a girl trapped in a cage called salvation and a fallen god trying to drag her into the same abyss of loneliness.