Xialan: Burning Sky Chronicles

Chen Yan is just a blacksmith. His biggest wish in this life is to raise his sister Xiaoyue to adulthood. Until the eldest son of the Zhao family died suddenly, the murder weapon was a knife he struck with his own hands. Overnight, he became a murderer. Neighbors gave false testimony, and the government directly convicted him. Even the people he saved did not dare to recognize him. An old man named Lao Shi told him in the prison: You came in not because you killed someone, but because someone in the Zhao family died, and there had to be a murderer. On the night when Lao Shi died, the cell caught fire. When Chen Yan escaped, he found that his sister had been taken away by a masked woman. That woman is from the Red Eyes tribe in the grassland - the Red Eyes tribe that was exterminated twenty years ago. Xiaoyue is an orphan. The dagger Chen Yan gave her began to glow. More and more people are chasing him: the Inner Guards, the Zhao family, and people who don't know their origins. There are fewer and fewer people helping him: Lao Shi died in prison, the maid threw herself into a well, and the old concierge disappeared after entrusting him with his grandson's prescription. Only Amul, a lame veteran, followed him. "I have lived for sixty-two years. I have been a soldier for twenty-three years, I have waited for Lao Shi for twenty years, and I have raised my grandson in these few years. That's enough." When he said "enough", Chen Yan didn't know that he was really good enough. Until Amul grasped the blade with his hand. --- This is a story about "acceptance" and "denial". The world can turn the bright into the dark, and can make good people die badly. But there are always people lighting fires in the darkest places - not to illuminate the world, but to prove that light existed. "As long as you live, I won't be tired."