Deep in Qingxi Mountain lies a “Land of Extinguished Lights” that cannot be found on any map. In this Level Four Field of Resentment, a rule forbidding speech after midnight has claimed countless lives.
Chen Yandeng is the fourteenth-generation guardian of time in the Chen family. Carrying the ancestral lantern that suppresses ghosts, he travels between Fields of Resentment across the country: taboo-ridden places formed by geomagnetic anomalies and terrible tragedies. Anyone who breaks their rules will be contaminated, suffer mental distortion, and eventually be assimilated and devoured.
This time, in the Land of Extinguished Lights, he meets a girl named Su Suiling. No rule can affect her, and she is completely immune to all contamination from resentment, yet she knows nothing about her own origins. Meanwhile, a small shadow watches them from the darkness: A Nuo, a lonely child born in the cracks between resentments. With no home and nowhere to belong, A Nuo longs with all their heart for the warmth of human life.
As the investigation deepens, Chen Yandeng discovers that the Land of Extinguished Lights is not an isolated case. The rules and aura of every Field of Resentment point back to the same source from a thousand years ago: the “Ghost Ancestor.”
And Su Suiling’s encounter with him was never a coincidence. She has been reincarnated hundreds of times, tasked with mending the ever-widening cracks through which the Ghost Ancestor’s rules leak. Every backlash Chen Yandeng suffers silently hastens the disintegration of her soul.
As the lamp burns, life is consumed; once the soul scatters, they will never meet again.
This is a thousand-year cycle that begins with rules and ends in fate. With a lone lamp, two empty souls, and a child without a home, each in their own way protects the last light of the human world.
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