
Panguan: The Twelfth Gate (Novel) Vol. 1 - Mu Su Li
Mu Su Li
- Pages · 412 pages
- Publication Date · 15/09/2026
- Genre · Fantasy
From the author and universe of Copper Coins and Three Hundred Years of Longing comes a modern-day, supernatural danmei (Boys' Love) story about a man without a soul and the one determined to save him at all costs. As a panguan, a cultivator tasked with putting the dead to rest, Wen Shi has spent a thousand years sending souls on to their next life. But without a soul of his own, he's trapped in an endless cycle of rebirth, searching for the lost pieces of himself. Now, reborn for the twelfth time, only one thing satisfies his hunger: the dark miasma that clings to the dead. So when failed panguan Xie Wen responds to Wen Shi's ad for a roommate, Wen Shi is taken aback by the dense miasma cloaking the handsome young man. Smug and irritating, Xie Wen instantly becomes Wen Shi's most tempting meal. Yet the longer Wen Shi spends with Xie Wen, the more mysterious he seems. Xie Wen appears to know things about Wen Shi even Wen Shi has forgotten-things that could end his millennium of lonely wandering.
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