★★★★★Read 10 chaptersyesterday
Worth staying up late for
The opening chapter had me hooked, and the slow reveal keeps paying off. Characters feel like real people with real reasons.
第九灯宗
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Shen Yao was the ninth disciple of a sect with eight lanterns. Expelled for lighting a lamp that didn't exist, he spends ten years as a ferryman before the eight lanterns go dark on the same night — and his is the only one still burning.
The opening chapter had me hooked, and the slow reveal keeps paying off. Characters feel like real people with real reasons.
Gorgeous prose and an unusual premise. The middle stretch is slower, but the last arc is worth every chapter.
Comfort reading with surprising depth. I look forward to every new release and reread the free chapters often.