Heaven Official's Blessing: The Night-Lantern Case at the Shrine
The lantern ledger flips on its own, and the first line of the new page is not a name of the dead — it is a child's.
The lantern street still bustles, but the old shrine feels as cold as a place where the rain has only just stopped. Without wind, the ledger turns to a new page — the first line is not a dead name but a child who just walked past the gate. You press the corner of the page, and a fainter line bleeds up beneath: Wishing-Lantern Transferred. A red lantern at the street mouth suddenly goes out.
Feng Xin / Xie Lian / Lang Qianqiu / Hua Cheng
Learning path
Read the English edition of this interactive story; the original source language is Chinese.
The lantern ledger flips on its own, and the first line of the new page is not a name of the dead — it is a child's.