During a night shift at Donglan Port in the Dragon Kingdom, a shipping container declared to contain "discarded stone carvings" showed something else on the scanner: an ancient fortified pass. When they opened it, wind and snow swept into the dock. A guard who had kept watch there for a hundred years handed Liang Su a broken seal of the pass. "We guarded the Dragon Kingdom for another 137 years. The road ahead is yours now."
From then on, Liang Su joined the Ninth Inspection Division, investigating ghost ships, solving bizarre mysteries, sealing haunted zones, and suppressing false gods. Any anomaly crossing the national border had to declare its true name, origin, purpose, and price. False declarations meant detention.
As the seal of the pass grew whole, he rose from an ordinary cargo handler to become the Dragon Kingdom's bearer of the seal. But he also discovered that his father's disappearance twelve years earlier was connected to the White Chamber Society, which sought to erase every nation, homeland, and history. When ten thousand eerie gates opened at once, Liang Su had to defend more than just a pass. He had to protect the countless lights shining in the homes behind him.
