Ten Years of Lanterns in the Jianghu Night Rain: Searching for a Lantern on the Cold River

Prologue: Ten Years of Lamplight. The rain at Hanjiang Ferry was always more lingering than elsewhere. Ten years ago, Mu Qingyan, the young lord of the Demonic Cult, joined forces with Cai Zhao, who bore the fated destiny of a demoness, to break the two-hundred-year deadlock between the Six Northern Sects and the Demonic Cult atop Qingque Sect. After that bloody battle, the righteous path's hypocritical mask was torn away, the Demonic Cult's surviving forces surrendered, and the martial world entered a peace unlike any it had known before. Hanjiang Ferry today was no longer the same perilous crossing it had been back then. The bluestone road had been worn smooth and polished by time. Warm yellow lanterns hung outside the taverns and teahouses along the street, casting a gentle glow through the rainy night. Beside the ferry stood the "Forget Worry