COLLECTION GL · SOLITARY LAMP
Some enter the tavern carrying a secret; others carry a blade. Gu Long's jianghu often begins after the crime. Combat slips from view, leaving silence, desire, and the distance between friends as the true field of battle.
Six novels are shelved along three paths: mystery, solitude, and choice.
GL-001 · FLYING DAGGER
Li Xunhuan gives both fortune and beloved to a friend, yet he can surrender neither feeling nor obligation. Behind the never-missing flying dagger stands a deeply affectionate man whose sacrifices continue to wound himself and others.
Gu Long makes the duel brief and the wait before it long. The sharpest thing here is not the dagger, but the emotion no one can bring himself to confess.
GL-002 · GENTLEMAN BANDIT
Chu Liuxiang solves one impossible case after another through lightness skill, wit, and a keen reading of human nature. Moving between outlaw and hero, he seldom chooses brute force; he asks who created the illusion, and why.
Read it as a jianghu detective story: first watch the clues misdirect you, then ask why Chu Liuxiang chooses to leave certain people a path out.
GL-003 · NUMINOUS FINGERS
Lu Xiaofeng, the man with “four eyebrows,” is forever drawn into impossible conspiracies. With his famed two-finger defence, loyal friends, and almost reckless intuition, he searches elaborate traps for the motive beneath the mechanism.
Every solved mystery also tests a friendship. Intelligence finds the culprit; Lu Xiaofeng's willingness to trust his friends ensures that the story offers more than an answer.
GL-004 · TWINS
Xiaoyu'er and Hua Wuque are separated and shaped into opposites: one learns guile in the Valley of Villains, the other grows into a flawless young master in the Floral Palace. At last, other hands arrange for them to become enemies.
The twins set nature, education, and identity against each other. Fate is the trap others built; how the brothers close it belongs to them alone.
GL-005 · ASSASSIN'S GAME
Assassin Meng Xinghun is ordered to kill the powerful Old Master Sun. Drawing closer to his target, he sees factional order, desire, and affection entangle. The nearer the mission comes to completion, the harder it becomes to keep a fixed allegiance.
Meteor, butterfly, and sword are all beautiful and fleeting. Through an assassin's world, the novel asks whether someone treated as a tool can choose a direction of his own.
GL-006 · THE NAME OF THE SWORD
Xie Xiaofeng, Third Master of the Divine Sword Manor, has tired of being called the finest swordsman alive and tries to live under another name. Yan Shisan still carries his lethal Thirteen Swords in search of the duel neither can avoid.
When fame outlives the person, even retirement becomes a luxury. The two swordsmen meet in a contest not merely of victory, but of emptiness and responsibility.