Seven Seas revealed the cover for Vol. 3 of Silent Reading: Mo Du, a crime thriller danmei written by priest.
The cover art and interior B&W illustrations are provided by artist Rylee, who returns from their work on Vols. 1 & 2 of the series. [Source: Twitter/X, Bluesky]
Seven Seas provides the following volume summary:
“WHAT, CAN THE DEVIL SPEAK TRUE?” – MACBETH
When a powerful business magnate dies in a mysterious car crash, the stability of his empire collapses overnight. Days later, his eldest son is kidnapped, forcing Luo Wenzhou and his team into a treacherous investigation where every lead is undermined by the tycoon’s colleagues—and even by his own surviving children.
As the scope of the case widens, Luo Wenzhou must navigate secrets and betrayals worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy.
Fei Du is crucial to the investigation, particularly because he is close friends with another of the businessman’s sons. Luo Wenzhou may still be guessing at Fei Du’s true motivations, but he has no choice: he must work with him on this confounding case—and the partnership may drive him closer to Fei Du than ever before.
Silent Reading: Mo Du Vol. 3 is scheduled for release on June 9, 2026. Preorders are available from several major retailers:
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Silent Reading
默讀
[Synopsis Provided by Seven Seas Entertainment:]
A young man’s body is found outside a glitzy high-rise on the West Side of Yancheng—dressed for celebration, strangled, and left with a sheet of paper covering his face. One word is scrawled across it: money.
To Sergeant Luo Wenzhou, head of the Criminal Investigation Team at the Yancheng Municipal Public Safety Bureau, it’s just another case in a city rife with power plays and buried secrets. But as he digs deeper with his team, what begins as a straightforward homicide unravels into something far murkier—reaching into the city’s darkest corners of wealth, privilege, and police corruption.
And then there’s Fei Du: the aloof, razor-sharp CEO of the Fei Corporation, who seems to know far too much about the murder—and about Luo Wenzhou himself. Once a troubled youth with ties to Luo’s past, Fei Du now walks a fine line between brilliant ally and inscrutable suspect. His insights are disturbingly precise. His motives? Frustratingly opaque.
As the investigation twists through layers of trauma and moral ambiguity, Luo Wenzhou finds himself reluctantly drawn toward the very man who unsettles him most. But in a city where justice is easily bought and truth wears many masks, can either man afford to trust the other?
Silent Reading (默讀) is a danmei novel written by priest. It began serialization in 2016 and ran for 180 chapters (plus 5 Extras), and is available to read in Chinese on JJWXC.
The series has received an audio drama adaptation. A donghua and manhua adaptation were announced in 2020, but their current production status is unknown.
Silent Reading also inspired a live-action adaptation known as Justice in the Dark. Only eight of a planned thirty episodes made it to air in China in February 2023 before further updates went silent, and it was eventually delisted from all official channels in July of the same year. In March 2025, the Japanese streaming service WOWOW began streaming the drama under the name 光・淵, and it is now also available to stream in English.
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