A Stunning Figure in the Moonlight

Ning Duchuan was once one of Qingcenyuan's brightest young talents.

Overnight, he became a criminal accused of stealing a forbidden relic and murdering his fellow disciples.

His sect cast him aside, old friends fell silent, and his family disowned him. In the end, even his divine root, regarded by the world as the foundation of cultivation, was personally destroyed by his own hand.

From then on, he could no longer cultivate or join a sect. He could not even be detected by many ancient formations.

Everyone thought his life was over.

Until he met Pei Jingxue in an ancient city long since abandoned.

This woman, cold as snow, was searching for someone who had never existed in this world.

There was no portrait, no name, no gravestone.

And yet she remembered.

From that day on, Ning Duchuan began to realize that something was wrong with this world.

An extra cushion in the ancestral hall, bowls and chopsticks left unclaimed in an old house, a nameless stele bearing a name in the dead of night, and people who had once lived, yet vanished from everyone's memories.

Gradually, he began to understand:

Perhaps what had been taken from him was never his talent.

And when the moon that had shone over the Nine Walls for countless ages cracked for the first time, Ning Duchuan finally saw an even more terrifying question:

If someone's name can truly be erased from heaven and earth...

What makes those living now so sure that the world they remember is the real one?

The Nine Walls stand like ramparts, and the bright moon hangs high.

A man who has already fallen outside the bounds of fate begins his journey toward the moon.