Nameless, Beneath a Lonely Lamp

Jin, a boy from a poor mountain village, dares to stand up for himself. He wears worn-out shoes and goes hungry, and his classmates call him a "country bumpkin" before cornering and beating him at the school gate. His grandmother is fierce, while his grandfather keeps silent. After his grandfather is beaten and dies of grief, Jin follows his father south. Because he is older than his classmates, he is placed in a lower grade, and even though he comes first in the exams, he is still shunned. After his grandmother dies, he takes a knife and walks into an unmarked inn at the end of an alley, naming himself Wuming. From that moment on, he is no longer a child anyone can bully. He must walk a road of no return alone. A lonely lamp glows like a bean, too dim to light up the night, yet bright enough to show him the way ahead.