Shadow Guardian: Chasing the Fire by Night

“Number 13!” the man barked impatiently, holding a register of names.

A small head poked out from the crowd. The boy looked at him uneasily.

“I... my name is...”

The boy parted his lips, but the words refused to come.

Time seemed to freeze in an instant, and the birds beating their wings hung motionless in the air.

A figure appeared silently. It seemed to have been standing there all along, yet somehow did not belong.

The figure glanced at the boy’s youthful face. In the blank space on the thirteenth line of the register, the characters “Ye Xiao” suddenly appeared.

“So that’s how you got your name!”

A young woman’s sweet laughter rang in his ear. Ye Xiao gave a helpless pout.

“I was just worried something might go wrong!”