There Are No Gods in These Nine Lands

A lot of authors like to make their protagonists into gods.

Sometimes I wonder: when someone gives everything they have, what are they really striving for?

The purpose of a hero is to make the world no longer need heroes.

The stories we hear as children often end with, “And they lived happily ever after.” But what does “happiness” really mean?

Perhaps happiness isn’t about becoming something. Perhaps it’s about being free to be nothing at all.

Gu Changge answered that question with his life: what he wanted was for those who came after him to never have to give everything they had again.