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The Sword That Did Not Know Its Own Shadow: A Wuxia Novel
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 25 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Yan Zhifeng has spent twenty years on a quiet mountain, trained by a teacher who taught him to read distance, silence, and the space between one breath and the next. He comes down to deliver a single letter. By the next morning, the two people he was sent to find are dead in a locked room, and the entire martial world has already decided he is the killer.
With a price on his head and no one who believes him, Zhifeng is pursued across three towns by hired blades, a grieving niece convinced he murdered her family, and an investigator who trusts evidence more than reputation. To clear his name, he must find out who wanted two harmless people dead badly enough to frame a stranger who had never raised a sword against another person until that week.
The trail leads past a convoy at a southern port, a sword style copied too perfectly to be coincidence, and a name so powerful that no one in the Capital dares speak it aloud. The Sword That Did Not Know Its Own Shadow is a wuxia mystery about a young swordsman who learns that the hardest technique to master is not a blade style at all, it is knowing which people to trust when everyone has a reason to lie.
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