In Volume One, I found Bai Jingyao in the three words my grandfather left behind.
In Volume Two, I followed his trail into Blackscale Village.
The people here grow scales on their bodies. The ancestral hall enshrines living skin, and the Scale Well behind the village fills in the missing name of your father.
On the fifth night, the well keeper emerged.
It wasn’t after my life.
It wanted to strip away the name “Chen Qingshan.”
And in the White Mark Shrine at the bottom of the well, someone had been waiting for me for twenty years.
He said my grandfather hadn’t saved me from the village so I could live.
He did it so that one day, I would come back of my own accord.
Why do I remember not mentioning parents at the beginning of volume one?
Still shocking compared to the first volume 👍