I Have One of the Three Thousand Avenues to Myself

Three thousand characters, three thousand roads, a broken and reborn world. This is a grand narrative composed of three thousand independent short stories. Each article tells a person's life, and each life represents a "dao". They come from different eras - the dawn of the gods, the troubled times of iron and fire, the prosperous age of silence, and the age of collapse. They don't know each other, but they step on the same land; they have never met, but they live under the same moon. Among these three thousand people, there are gravekeepers, storytellers, deserters, swordsmiths, liars, midwives, mad monks, mute princes, and dream traders. Some people only do one thing in their lives, some people run away all their lives, some people change the direction of the dynasty with one sentence, and some people live, love, hate and then die quietly in the gaps of history. Each of them is you. It's all me too. Among these three thousand short stories, you will find: A liar who was a habitual liar, he swore to tell the truth to only one person in his life - and that person was no longer alive. A scholar who wrote suicide notes for others, every suicide note he ever wrote became true, except for the one he wanted to write the most, he dared not write it until his death. A person who has been struck by lightning spends his whole life trying to explain that accident, and finally discovers that there was no accident at all. A mute who has only spoken three sentences in his life changes his words every time he speaks. A lampkeeper who only does one thing in troubled times: light the lighthouse every day, regardless of who is fighting outside.