Chronicles of the Ghost-Taming Town

In the depths of winter, Yong'an Town lay sunk in bitter silence. Remnants of strange text arrived without a sound, swallowing people’s traces and erasing their memories. The old carpenter Wang Deshun vanished into thin air, and the old scholar Zhang Maolin was forgotten by the world. The peaceful town became a realm of the strange. In the midst of this desperate crisis, Lin Yanqiu of the Lin family’s movable-type shop awakened the legacy of the Wordbreaker. With a carving knife and movable type as his tools, he mended the fragments of The Chronicle of Quelling the Strange and barely protected what remained of life, at the agonizing cost of **changing one word and forgetting one thing**. Before the remnants of the strange could be quelled, a wordless void arrived in their wake. Without ink, words, or traces to follow, it swallowed the existence of all things. The rules for changing words that Lin Yanqiu relied on to survive failed completely, plunging him into an unprecedented crisis. Only when a woman in black, Su Mo, appeared did he manage to uncover a corner of the truth: words and the void were born together, The Chronicle of Quelling the Strange contained the fate of all living beings, and the Bureau of Text and Seal was willingly serving as the writer’s lackey, plotting to shatter the balance and rule the world alone. With a warrant on his head and strange disasters spreading, Lin Yanqiu travels across the lands of Jiuzhou with his close friends. He quells mountain spirits in Shu, lays the loyal souls of the northern frontier to rest, and seeks the legacy left behind by generations of Wordbreakers, using all his strength to resist obsessions that have endured for a thousand years. What he has always protected is not merely a movable-type shop, but the right of all living beings to exist without being erased, and the order in which words and the void coexist. Even if every step is soaked in blood and his memories are scattered, he will break the writer’s hold over fate and ensure that the warmth of human life endures.