[Dark Martial Arts in Another World + Mystery Investigations + Multiple Heroines + Tangled Relationships]
In a border city torn apart by chaos, the most precious thing has never been life. It’s the flame that can keep someone alive.
Ning Xi woke on a corpse bed with a bone lantern in hand. From then on, his fate was no longer his own.
Its light revealed old debts of blood, wronged souls, cold cases, and the filth buried deepest in people’s hearts.
A workshop of bones, medicinal liquid from the pagoda forest, coded slang at the Listening Rain Tower, corpses in Skinning Alley... He only wanted to scrape by, but the deeper he investigated, the more he came to resemble a ghost raised inside the lantern.
The lantern illuminates the bones; the bones illuminate the living.
By the time Ning Xi saw the truth, no one could tell whether he was the one holding the lantern or the ghost inside it.
