The Oathmaker's Apprentice

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Yan Heshu is a penniless servant-class disciple trapped inside Mirror Pool Sect by an inherited exile-oath. He has no qi, no master, and no chance of surviving the sect-survival exam by strength. But when he is assigned to clean old oath-tablets, he discovers his disgraced grandfather's ink reveals the hidden fallback clauses that enforce every blood-oath. Seniors who treat contracts as servant work begin signing vows in front of him, never realizing Yan can read the second line beneath the first. With each notarized oath, Yan maps the sect's secret debts, blackmails, and betrayals—especially the twenty-seven private vows of the First Seat, the immortal cultivator who once declared him useless. Yan cannot break oaths, cannot lie under his own ink, and cannot leave the mountain without dying. So he does the only thing a powerless boy can do in a sect of monsters: he writes terms sharp enough to make monsters kneel.

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