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Summary

Under the guise of fortune-telling, the young Daoist Jun Li wanders the jianghu. In a tea shed during a torrential rainstorm at the start of autumn, he encounters Qiu Kui, a woman in white carrying a lute case on her back. He sees through her identity as an heir of the Lingyin Sect and reveals that she has just lost her closest kin; their conflict becomes the beginning of a lasting bond. Later, Jun Li follows the traces of his adoptive father back to Huizhou, where he is drawn into the bloody upheaval at Hongfu Tower, the power struggle within the Qinglong Cult, and the survival crisis of the Black Bamboo Society. After the poisoning of the Vermilion Bird Deity, he inherits the position of the Black Bamboo Society's new leader, carrying the name Xia Yan and the weight of the feud with the Xia family estate. Centered on the secret of the lost strings of the Lingyin Sect's fifty-string zither, the story unfolds across Huizhou, Lin'an, Dongting, and Yunmeng, questioning fate, duty, and reconciliation amid the rivalry of multiple factions.

Editor's review

The prose is steady and restrained, the narrative precise as a chess game; lute strings and sword spirit interweave into a rich Eastern aesthetic atmosphere, and the ensemble cast is three-dimensional—not the usual monster-slaying and leveling-up style. Suited to readers who prefer classical wuxia and slow-burn intrigue. Its weakness is that the opening pace is slow and the threads dense, making it less friendly to readers who only want brisk combat, and the work has limited renown.

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Reading tips

  1. Read the opening tea-shed encounter with the woman in white first to feel the style and tone before deciding to go deeper
  2. Watch for object clues such as the lute strings and the fifty-string lute, which link the factions and characters' origins
  3. Many characters debut at once; briefly note the relationships among the factions to clarify the threads

About the publisher

Qidian

Qidian is a platform whose catalogue brings together online literature, with about 45,000 titles in the library spanning categories such as male-oriented fiction, Eastern fantasy, xianxia and wuxia, science fiction, selected fiction and quality web novels. Representative titles include Reincarnation Paradise, War Soldier Leon, The Fairy Is Fierce (also known as Tai Mang), The Expert Is Right Beside Me, Dragon Herder, You Should Cross the Mountains Like a Hero, The Adventures of a Clever Girl and Summoning Heroes of All Ages in Another World, with themes extending from fantasy and xianxia to science fiction and adventure. Representative authors available in the library include Na Yi Zhi Wen Zi, Chi Gua Zi Qun Zhong, Guan Guan Gong Zi, Chenxing LL, Luan, Chen Mo De Ai, Piao Yi Dao Zhang and Dong Tian Bu Leng. Their works mostly appear as serialized web fiction aimed at readers who prefer long genre fiction. Public information on its founding background and scale is limited, so no inferences are made here; the description is based solely on the library's titles and categories.

FAQ

Is this a typical leveling-and-monster-slaying wuxia? No; it emphasizes intrigue, fateful choices, and emotion, with a slow pace and none of the wish-fulfillment formula.
Is the protagonist a Daoist or Xia Yan? The young Daoist priest Jun Li later changes his name to Xia Yan; they are different stages of the same protagonist.
From which chapter is it best to start? Start from the first chapter, the tea-shed encounter with the woman in white, to enter the style and mainline.

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About the author

Little Sheep Wool Author

Little Sheep Wool (Chinese name: Xiao Yangmao) is an author whose nationality, birth and death dates remain unknown, and whose publicly available information is limited. Two of the author's works are held in the collection, namely Wu Jian (Black Sword) and Xing Xing, with common categories centering on boys' fiction, xianxia and wuxia, premium fiction, and martial arts novels. Judging from the existing classifications, the writing leans toward wuxia and xianxia themes, is placed in the reading lineup aimed at male readers, and carries the positioning of premium fiction. Because verifiable details such as the author's creative career, literary school, and lineage have not yet been made public, it is difficult at present to trace a complete creative trajectory; readers may begin with Wu Jian and Xing Xing to sense the author's orientation and style in jianghu storytelling and xianxia imagination.