Booksellers

Blood rain fell from the sky for fifteen days. Cell phones are muted, signals are out, guns don't fire, appliances malfunction. A silent watershed cut the world in half. Ye Liantian, 26 years old, is a book stall owner at the county flea market. He has no ambition and no background. He makes a living by selling used books. He is fond of martial arts and fantasy. He is a gentle and honest person at heart. On the day when the blood rain struck, his first reaction was not to run away, but to stuff the book into a waterproof bag. After the bloody rain stopped, the world changed. Thermal weapons failed, guns returned to zero, and swords and clubs became the last word again. And it was on this night that he felt for the first time the subtle warmth in his Dantian from an old version of "Iron-Blooded Sword Manual: Internal Cultivation" of unknown origin - it was not an illusion, but a real sense of Qi. A bookseller stepped into a world he had never imagined. There are no Goldfinger-style adventures from the sky, no passive female protagonists, but only: martial arts classics unearthed from old bookstalls, trust built up bit by bit in the chaos of the apocalypse, and a grassroots world supported by book knowledge and human sophistication. Fang Changgeng, an old man who sells calligraphy and painting, is his guide, Lu Shuang, a straight-forward fitness coach, is his first companion, Qin Wantang, an erudite and calm librarian, holds the rarest ancient book resources in this era, and Xie Yunqi, a retired soldier, will be both his most dangerous opponent and his most important ally. This is a story of a man who made his fortune through books and used knowledge to make a way in troubled times.