root-book

[COMPLETED - UPDATES REGULARLY] Grief is a restless ghost. Left untended, it festers. Left unspoken, it haunts. Yin Yue was never meant to lead Clan Ming. That had been his radiant brother''''s fate, until the former zongzhu of Ming met his end in disgrace. Now, the weight of the disgraced clan rests on his narrow shoulders, his every step watched by Huijin, the man who raised him and the man who cannot forgive him. Alongside them walks an aging swordmaster, oathbound to a boy he knows he cannot protect. When a village is stalked by the ghost of a beast, Yin Yue is obliged to intervene. But the land remembers what men forget. Old wounds seep beneath quiet soil, and not all spirits can be banished. As the past sharpens its teeth, Yin Yue must ask himself: is the haunting in the village, or in the people he calls his own?