The Great Yong lights its city lamps with the people's lifespans, holding back the gray mist that devours the mortal world.
In his previous life, Shen Zhaoye wrote his younger sister Shen Xiaoman's name on the offering document with his own hand, believing that sacrificing one person could save everyone in the city. Only after the city fell and its people perished did he learn the truth: so-called ascension was merely borrowing a flame without returning it, and the so-called Eternal City Lamp of Protection illuminated only the path to immortality for a select few.
When he opened his eyes again, he had returned to forty-nine days before the sacrifice. In his hands was a blank Book of Fate that recorded only doomed endings and offered no answers, while he himself had just a hundred days to live. The book could alter fate, but each time he wrote a stroke, he had to pay for it with his lifespan and memories.
To save his sister, Shen Zhaoye reopened the Third Watch Shop. Carrying a white lantern, he entered haunted realms, inscribed the names of the dead, and returned borrowed flames to the living. Ning Zhiwei, a physician who mended flames to prolong life; Shang Hongyao, who guarded the city beneath a red banner; and Xie Tinglan, awakened from a thousand-year-old remnant lamp, all journeyed with him into the depths of the gray mist in turn.
There, they saw old cities erased from history, endless funerals for both the living and the dead, and countless people who had once lived, still waiting for their names to be carried back to the human world.
The city lamps borrow the lives of all living beings, but he is determined to return every flame.
This time, the human world will lend no lifespans.
Is this kind of book suitable for people who have time? Maybe the author can wait until the book is finished and publish it. The rating may be higher after the book is completed, but there is no need to read dozens of pictures like this. It may not be finished after so many pitfalls. There is no need to pursue it.