“Some truths are meant to be buried. I just wasn’t one of them.”

Zhao Mingli was an ordinary scholar — until the night he died chasing a forbidden manuscript.

He awoke in another world, in another body: Cyril Veyrault, an archivist in an empire where knowledge itself bleeds. The stars whisper, the seas remember, and books can look back at you.

As Cyril walks the Path of the Archivist, he begins to uncover letters, gods, and lies that tie his new world to the one he left behind.

But truth hungers. And every page he reads brings him closer to becoming something no human should ever be.

— Ink of the Abyss: Where curiosity kills, and knowledge resurrects.