Son of the Candle Dragon

Hydrological observer Chen Jianxia took over the job of his father who mysteriously disappeared in Kuimen, Yangtze River twenty years ago. He thought he was facing only boring data and the eternal river wind, until one moonless night, the instrument screen suddenly lost control: the flow rate returned to zero, and the water temperature dropped below freezing point. On the yellowed recording paper, a judgment written by no one but dripping with ink appeared: "Night Watcher, you are twenty years late." He was forced to inherit a responsibility far beyond imagination: to observe and protect the ancient existence sleeping at the bottom of the river, whose breathing affects the laws of the world - the "Candle Dragon". When the "candlelight" symbolizing the boundary between reality and nothingness is forcibly extinguished, when the war resentment sunk in the mud of history is awakened as a "water ghost", when the official force representing order and control strongly intervenes... Chen Jianxia stands on the fault line between science and myth. What he wants to protect is not only the secret of this river, but also a fragile balance that affects whether the existing world sleeps peacefully or collapses in nightmares. The long night has come, and the last night watchman lights his lamp alone.