The royal banquet ends in darkness, black water, and a question no city is permitted to ask: what if an ancient king's return is not a miracle, but a system waking beneath the stones?Namsin, a young scribe trained to trust clay more than memory, escapes the ruined banquet hall with a damaged record fragment and half of the stolen seventh seal. What he has seen cannot be written safely. What he carries cannot be surrendered. Beside him, Cassandra reads the city through gates, pressur...

The boat stops without striking stone, sand, or timber. Beneath the black water, something has closed around the keel—and at the center of the current, a white foundation rises from the Flood, blank, wordless, and forbidden to name.Namsin, a young scribe carrying fragments of dangerous evidence, has already learned that some records do more than remember. They can open doors. They can summon kings. They can turn the dead into procedure and the missing into numbers. When the ruined b...

This book is a retelling, in easy-to-read Chinese, of the legendary story of how a little stone monkey was born, became king of his troop of monkeys, left his home to pursue enlightenment, received the name Sun Wukong (literally, "ape seeking the void") from his teacher, and returned home to defend his subjects from a ravenous monster.Sun Wukong, the Handsome Monkey King, is one of the most famous characters in Chinese literature and culture. His legendary bravery, his foolish mist...

A clay tablet enters the archive with one impossible flaw: its weight is wrong.In the Tablet Library of Uruk, every debt, death, offering, boundary, and royal name is preserved in fired clay. Namsin, a junior scribe trained to trust the record above all things, discovers an older text buried beneath an ordinary tribute account. A dead king's name has been written again and again across centuries. Beside it are water-gate numbers, erased seals, and the quiet arithmetic of missing peo...

A major motion picture (2007) from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Brokeback Mountain): an intensely passionate story of love and espionage, set in Shanghai during World War II.In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong, two lives become intertwined: Wong Chia Chi, a young student active in the resistance, and Mr. Yee, a powerful political figure who works for the Japanese occupational government. As these two move deftly...

"Apocalypse Awakening" takes you on a heart-pounding journey into a post-apocalyptic world filled with mystery and terror. Sean, our protagonist, suffers from sudden hallucinations that warp his perception of reality. After a four-year self-imposed exile from the world, an invitation to a high school reunion prompts him to venture out of his safe haven.Upon arrival, Sean is horrified to find his classmates transformed into monstrous beings, with only Layla appearing untouched by th...

"Weiliao" is a series program that tells the story of the world, it created by Wei Yi Culture and Media AB, and launched in 2020. The content touches on history, science, technology, astronomy, geography, music, and more.The "The History of Ancient Egypt" is a series of books to tell the historical stories of Ancient Egypt, and the stories run through the whole of Ancient Egypt. This book "The Early Dynastic Period...

The Golden Pyramid was built to make death obey. But beneath its sacred stone, something older than Egypt has begun to answer.After escaping the Chamber of Silence, scribe Kai Nefer and former mortuary attendant Tawi Meret carry proof that the official story is already being written against them. Survivors are being renamed as contamination. Failed bodies are being sealed away as samples. A damaged record points toward a forbidden place beneath the royal city: the Hall Without Light...

A royal body should not move after sealing. It should not open its eyes beneath the linen. It should not speak from an empty chest.In the mortuary chambers beneath the Golden Pyramid, Tawi Meret knows the rules of death better than anyone. Every body has a procedure. Every anomaly has a classification. Every witness has a place in the record—unless the record must be changed. When a sealed royal corpse produces black water, a forbidden white line, and a voice no dead mouth should ca...

Things begin to unravel for Sun Wukong as he sees the consequences of his outrageous actions. While trying to defend his troop of monkeys, he manages to offend the underwater Dragon King, the Dragon Kong's mother, all ten Kings of the Underworld, and the great Jade Emperor himself. Finally, goaded by a couple of troublemaking demons, he goes too far, calling himself the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and setting events in motion that cause him some serious trouble.This is the ...

A name is still knocking from inside the stone.Beneath the rising Golden Pyramid, a buried maintenance level has begun to answer a man the kingdom tried to erase: Besa, a quarry craftsman classified not as a father, not as a worker, but as material. His daughter has the right to witness what was done to him. Kai, a scribe carrying fragments the archives should have destroyed, and Tawi, a former mortuary attendant who knows how bodies are made silent, must reach him before the royal ...

FOR MATURE READERS ONLY. Sang is a young scholar living alone in a small village in 18th century China. One night a strange and beautiful woman arrives at his house, and he soon falls deeply in love with her. But later, a second even more beautiful woman arrives, and things become extremely complicated. This is a story about fox spirits and ghosts, love and lust, and the unpredictable nature of the human and the not-quite-human heart.This book is a ret...