Before Daybreak: Eternal Life

Name: Before Daybreak: Eternal Life
Author: A Ru, Who Loves Motherwort

天还没亮：长生

by A Ru, Who Loves Motherwort (喜欢茺蔚的阿茹)

Status: Completed
Length: 238k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical High-Concept
Updated: 4mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

I will never grow old.

Three thousand years ago, Old Tai found me on the steps of the observatory. He said, “Look carefully. Remember it. Don't let those who come after forget.”

So I remembered.

The bamboo slips of the Xia and Shang, the wooden tablets of the Zhou and Qin, the paper scrolls of the Han, Wei, and Jin. Mingtiao, Muye, Mount Li, Red Cliffs, Wuzhang Plains. Bi Gan's seven-chambered heart, Sima Qian's castration, Zhuge Liang's final lamp.

For three thousand years, I have watched one dynasty after another rise and fall, and watched heroes go from full of ambition to buried beneath mountains of corpses.

They all died.

I am still alive.

The wooden chest on my back holds all of it. But there is one thing I have never written down on any bamboo slip.

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