Duskshadow Morning Dance (Tales of the Dao II), which follows Tales of the Dao I, is one of the novels in the Tales of the Dao series by Wei Zhen WillNox. The novel continues to center on Dao Zhi, as stated in The Blue Lake Knight (Tales of the Dao V): “Different times, different identities, Dao Zhi has never changed.”
The novel opens with a poem. Its setting shifts from the school in Tales of the Dao I to the workplace, and it explores a wider range of themes, telling a winding, mysterious story through life, love, conflict, and ideals... Innocence and evil, darkness and light, love and hate: who can truly tell them apart?
The novel carries on the style of its predecessors. Welcome to Dao Zhi’s surreal world.
Opening poem, “The Road” / Wei Zhen WillNox, 2017.09
Roads stretch in every direction,
Speed kicks up clouds of dust,
Until sunrise and sunset blur.
Greed, glutted and bloated,
Heavy makeup and bare skin,
Bright lights shine on places of splendor.
The din cannot drown out loneliness,
Beneath the passion lies only coldness,
A prosperous society flaunts its riches to the age.
He walks alone in the mountains,
With only the night for company,
Willing to scatter red flowers and green leaves along the lost path.
