A Long-Lasting Light Guides Me Across the Rivers and Mountains

A Life-Bound is someone who entrusts their life to an old object filled with special meaning, using it as a life lamp to gain extraordinary powers. As long as the lamp remains intact, they cannot die.

Xin Liufeng, the first commander of the frontline patrol force fighting the wild spirits of Blue Star, is a Life-Bound. But his life lamp is no ordinary keepsake: it is a person.

After collapsing at his command post, amid blood pouring everywhere and the haze of approaching death, his life lamp gave him his first embrace. She said, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid... It's all right. I'll pull you back to life."

Wen Yu'an, a military doctor in the lamp-maintenance unit of the patrol force, was trained as a lamp repairer. She repairs the life lamps of the entire army, but can do nothing to help the commander. When she learns that she herself is his life lamp, she feels nothing like the panic and distress Xin Liufeng expects. She is happy. She thinks, So I can bear your life for you.

This story features:

A handsome, strong yet tragic, composed and gentle commander × a cold-faced, adorable lamp repairer who seems quiet but is steadfast inside

Mutual unrequited love. Both are already very fond of each other from the start; they just don't know it.

The story is a little slow to warm up. The main plot follows the patrol force's Life-Bound as they charge headlong toward their fated battles, alongside the cute interactions between the hero and heroine. There is physical suffering, but no heartbreak.

This is the story of a special force that hangs their lives on lamps, and of the people beneath those lamps. They don't talk about protecting the world or giving up their lives. On a battlefield where human voices are hard to hear, with the roar of wild spirits filling their ears, they tell the public, their comrades, and even the wild spirits lost to madness: I am listening.

The protagonists' core beliefs:

Xin Liufeng: I am willing to go to the battlefield and die before dawn. I will become live bait, a blade, and a line of defense for everyone. I am prepared for anything, even if all that remains is blood, fire, ash, and a remnant of my soul.

Wen Yu'an: I am willing to die after everyone else. I will remember everyone's stories and carry these years with me to the end of the world, until even my will fades away.

Theme: I am prepared. I will not blame even fate itself.