Lin Du opened an all-night lamp shop in an old alley south of the city, tending a black iron antique that the Lantern Society had certified as a "dead lamp." No one ever came by. Then, on a rainy night, he restored a delivery rider's broken dream, which had been lost for three years, and for the first time, the dead lamp burst into flame. It turned out the lamp didn't burn oil. It fed on nightmares. What it burned was not fire, but the unfinished dreams of the living.
After that first dream was restored, the all-night lamp shop was renamed the Lightcatcher Lighting Store by a twist of fate.
Helping the dead find justice, wagering with burning lamps, rescuing lamps from a lamp graveyard... One commission after another turned him from the laughingstock who tended the dead lamp into the eye of the storm at the millennium-old Lantern Society. And when the long night arrived, as the world's dream began to awaken and the Dreamweaver opened their eyes, he finally pushed open the door hidden in the deepest part of his memory...
