Via Lactea has announced its next license and it’s a wuxia danmei.
The indie publisher revealed that it had licensed The Last Mercy, a single volume danmei written by Jin Shi Si Chai. Described as a historical wuxia story that features the popular trope of enemies to lovers. Jin Shi Si Chai has also written In the Dark (previously published by the now closed Peach Flower House).
Via Lactea provided an excerpt of The Last Mercy:
Kou Biancheng met those eyes. That gaze was cold, still, empty of everything—there was no rage. No hatred. Nothing at all. A flat surface of deep water that had long gone stagnant.
The indifference was almost worse than hate; it lingered within his chest like a splinter he couldn’t reach.
“Listen carefully, Ye Qianlang.” He let the silence stretch for a moment, and when he spoke again, something darker had crept into his tone. “I can kill you. And I can just as easily keep you alive.”
Ye Qianlang did not blink. Those eyes held the cold of ice that had long forgotten it was ever water. When he spoke, his voice was like a sword drawn free from its scabbard—not loud, but final.
“Then hear me.” Each word fell like a sharp cut. “That blade. My arm. I will repay what you’ve done a hundredfold.”
A release date and preorder date have not yet been announced yet.
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