[Post-apocalyptic, Lovecraftian, traditional opera heritage, unhinged protagonist, dual personality, high-powered battles]
The Red Star descended, civilization unraveled, and humanity retreated to the Nine Domains to eke out a living.
Bai Yansheng transmigrated into a living hell from the start: his tongue had been cut out, leaving him mute, and he survived by scavenging trash on Desolate-Tune Beach.
Everyone in this world suffers from “False Speech Syndrome.” The moment they speak a sentence, mute beasts follow the sound and hunt them down.
Then he dug a blood-seeping fragment of an inkstone from the arms of an unknown corpse.
An old voice took up residence in his left ear: “Sing it.”
His tongue struck the clapper, ink flowed from the broken inkstone, and a map of the Nine Domains appeared in the ink.
People called him a mute good-for-nothing, but he was determined to shatter eighteen throats with the beat of his clappers.
People feared that speaking aloud would bring disaster, but he laughed at the top of his lungs among the mute beasts.
Storytelling, clapper talk, three-stringed lutes, and comic ballads: the lost “Arts of Performance” of the Nine Domains all came alive in his hands.
“Don’t laugh,” read the sign on the walls of Banter City.
He only laughed more wildly than anyone, striking a bone clapper, clad in a bloodstained robe.
“You wanted a show? This young master’s performance, ‘The Life-and-Death Clappers,’ is about to begin.”
No one else dared sing. He did.
No one else could pass it on. He could.
No one else was like him: half a performance-obsessed madman, half a desperado with terrifying composure.
As Cen Huanxiang’s master, Qu Liansheng, Shang Jiuzhu, and Mo Huaigu were drawn into this path of “passing on the voice” one after another,
Bai Yansheng realized that the person Lord Luo Si feared most before he died might still be onstage, telling stories.
He felt the broken inkstone in his robes and smiled.
“The one you’ve been waiting for, the voice-bearer, has arrived
It is whimsical and majestic, integrating traditional Chinese culture and has the same purpose as "I'm Not a Drama God".