Ink of the Abyss

“Every truth bleeds through reality.” Before he was Cyril Veyrault, he was Zhao Mingli—a scholar who died while decoding the language of dreams. Reborn in a world where oceans are graves of sleeping gods, Cyril becomes an archivist in the Empire’s coastal capital— a place where knowledge is worshipped, and memory itself can drown. When a sealed journal appears among the library’s forbidden stacks, written entirely in his own hand, Cyril is pulled into a web of hidden societies, relics that whisper, and the perilous ascension known as the Pathways. With each truth he records, reality bends a little further. And somewhere in the deep, something begins to remember him.