Half Face: the Remnant Soul of Lantern Alley

Tags: revenge/strategy/identity disguise/court games/heart-torture/layers of reversal Suzhou Lantern Alley, the home of three generations of craftsmen, was wiped out overnight. The father was tied to a lampstand and burned alive. The mother lost her hands. Grandma bit her tongue and wrote eleven names with blood as ink. The last word was covered in blood. The six-year-old sister was killed. Su Shouyan's legs were broken, the right half of his face was burned with tung oil, and he was thrown into the canal. But he didn't die. Three years as a beggar and eight years as a lurker. He changed his name to "Lu Chen" and used a burned face as a disguise - no one would take a second look at an ugly cripple - he sneaked into the enemy's business and worked his way from apprentice to shopkeeper. Then he killed the first man. Before his death, the enemy said: "I am just a dog." There is a second one behind it. The third one. The fourth. Everyone is better than him. Each death points to a deeper darkness. Every time one is killed, something is missing from him. It took him seventeen years to read clearly the last blurred words on his grandmother's blood book.