Via Lactea announced their acquisition of the English license for The Last Mercy, a historical wuxia danmei by author Jin Shisi Chai. [Source: Twitter/X]
The publisher’s social media announcement is as follows:
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🖊️Author: Jin Shi Si Chai🗡️ 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.”🎁 Retweet to enter our lucky draw. One winner will receive a CAD 26.99 gift card.
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This will be a single-volume release, and the publisher will provide more information about preorder and release at a later date.
Jin Shisi Chai is not a new arrival to the English danmei market: their modern-day mystery series Lip and Sword was published by Via Lactea in 2023, and the now-closed Peach Flower House published their crime thriller In the Dark in the same year.
The Last Mercy
无情物
[Synopsis Provided by Via Lactea:]
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."
The Last Mercy (无情物) is a danmei novel by Jin Shisi Chai. It began serialization in 2020 and ran for 36 chapters (plus 1 Extra), and is available to read in Chinese on Chang Pei.
The series has received an audio drama adaptation.
You can learn more about The Last Mercy in the DanmeiNews catalog.
Source: Via Lactea (Twitter/X)
