The Paper Lantern Will Not Return
纸灯照不归
by Anonymous Guanlan (无名氏观澜)
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 11k Words
- Chapters
- 10
- Updated
- 6mo ago
- Source
- JJWXC
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Synopsis
There is an alley in Lingchuan, and there is a shop at the end of the alley. The name of the shop is: Denggui. The shop owner, Su Wandeng, is a paper-tying girl who cannot see clearly. She couldn't see the strangers coming and going in the world. All she could see was bright or dark, warm or cold lights - that was obsession, a lingering soul, an obsession that couldn't be let go, and a pain hidden deep in the heart that refused to leave. She uses bamboo as her bones, paper as her clothes, and cinnabar as her soul. When a lamp is turned on, she gives her wandering obsession a home. Everyone in the world knows that she is the one who transfers souls, but only she knows that she is just leaving a glimmer of light for those desperate thoughts. There is a tomb in the north of the city. There is a person in front of the tomb, named Xie Xun. He is the tomb keeper and the messenger of Wangchuan. He is responsible for the destiny of breaking up thoughts, holding the old sword of Zhanchen in his hand. He is born ruthless and has a heart as cold as stone. He gives up his obsessions when he sees them, and sends them away when he sees his wandering souls. He sticks to only one principle in his life: obsessions should be given up, and past lives should be forgotten. Until that day, he stepped into the small shop with warm lights. She stays, he breaks. She guards the light of the world, and he guards the cold rain of the lonely grave. Her beliefs and thoughts can be put to rest, but his belief and obsession will be eradicated. Encounter again and again, confrontation again and again. He saw that she conquered demons with gentleness and treated souls with compassion; she saw that beneath his coldness, there was a loneliness and inability to control that no one knew about. The monsters in Lingchuan appear one after another: the girl's soul who has kept her promise for three years, the embroidered monster who embroidered her bones with blood, the river monster who has been crossing people for hundreds of years, the mirror monster who is trapped in her appearance, and the locust tree monster who has guarded the tomb for five hundred years. Every obsession is an unresolved fate; every salvation is a self-transcendence of the human heart. But they don't know that despite all the obsessions in the world, the most difficult thing to overcome has always been each other and the inevitable fate. One will die when he is in love, and the other will die when he sees someone. But the most powerful thing in the world is never destiny, but the direction of the heart and the direction of love. One lamp, two people. I would like to use a night lamp to carry you through your floating life and bring you back to the human world. Intention: To use lamps to overcome obsessions, to use love to overcome fate, to save others is also to save oneself.