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Lantern: Behold the Bayonet
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57 Chapters + 3 Extras + 1 Side Story (Complete)
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Chu Ci couldn’t help but smile: “Han Yue, I’m about to die. You should be happy, why do you look like you’re about to cry?”

Han Yue paused, coldly replying with a question after a while: “Your death should bring about much joy to many people, how would there be a person who would shed tears for you?”

“…That’s true.” Chu Ci sighed as he nodded, “I don’t wish for you to shed a single drop of tear for me, dirtying my road to reincarnation.”

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The Light on the Bayonet
提灯看刺刀
Related Series
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02/24/21 Xiyang c1-4
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6 Reviews


meridianna
meridianna
Mar 10, 2021
Status: Completed
who's the madman translating this? *check the name* OMG PLS XIYANG ASGF

coughcough, anyway... how to put this one. first of all, too abusive. dog-blood drama everywhere... but with the knives straightly pointing at your heart. i, for once, don't know what's the deal with this CP. sure, our Chu-gong is very nice but pitiful, because he was trapped with that one crazy man named Han Yue. but, yes, but Han Yue's feeling toward Chu Ci is actually very genuine... to the point of obsession from the start (i see you,... more>> the gong who has 800 years crush). so is Han Yue a scum gong? yes he is, but he's very clear about his love to Chu Ci which is... well, unlike the standard scum gong who treats his shou badly and coldly. Han Yue ab*sed Chu Ci mainly because he wanted Chu Ci always together with him. that thinking is good, but the method is screwed. his love is just very *HEAVY*.

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the feud between them is quite complicated. I won't mention here. I just don't understand why Chu Ci (shou) still keeps Han Yue alive after those ab*se and rap*ng (well I'm not kidding). it's not like he couldn't kill Han Yue (gong), using some surprise attack I'm sure he could do it. for revenge? hey that's too far. I can't think another reason except Chu Ci himself has some feelings toward Han Yue.

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most common opinion about this novel: maybe bad ending will suit more. the happy ending is just like some Deus Ex Machina bullshittery.

i can't comment most plot, I skipped them especially the painful ones (cough). the characters are good. and honestly, I much prefer the other two Lantern. it is Huaishang's early novel so the flaws are very apparent. and the quality of plot is not as good as her recent works. not to mention (cough) problematic themes (cough). if you check Huaishang jjwxc page, you'll see this novel is being locked :>

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but anyway, you readers can be happy as the gong became housekeeper in the end of novel. well sorry, I'm very critical with this dumbo dino-husband. oh maan, seeing Chu Ci again in Poyun makes me sad after I know what happened to him here. well although in next Lantern (提灯照河山, not the Peach Blossom one btw), his situation turns better and he lives very well. too well maybe..... aww yiss, let him do whatever he wants. including badmouthing Han Yue. accidentally I made spoiler thread for all Lantern. if you want to ask more spoilers, let's go there.

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edit: Lao Long's name is Long Jiwei and the little dragon is Xuan Lin, and they ARE pair. you can read more about them in another Lantern ((提灯照河山), tho they're only side couple. Long Jiwei is so good... <<less
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Amk
Amk
Mar 16, 2021
Status: Completed
Started off quite strong and has a mystery element that makes it unique from other BL. I think the 1st half was extremely enjoyable.

The best part of this novel for me was well written characters. The backstories of our 2 protagonists are interesting and they both have very distinct personalities from the start, the best part being that neither of them are pushovers. Some of the side characters were good as well, including ML's friend (Pei Zhi) and father.

Agree with Meridianna (1st reviewer) though that the repeated drama and ab*se... more>> gets tiring after a while and only takes away from the plot instead of developing it. The author could remove a good chunk of the drama in the 2nd half
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e.g. Mc's disease

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and the novel would have been just as good, if not better.

Great novel for those who love dog-blood, revenge, ab*se, action, etc. Not so great if you're looking for storyline or fluff. <<less
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CrescentLuna
CrescentLuna
Apr 13, 2022
Status: Completed
mtl this novel recently. I love this story. I accept ML and MC together because ML have some toleratable and considerable. Even there r*ped and painfully s*x, there ab*sed physical but not too far to tortured MC to dead. This ML far better than ML in Earned Favors novel who kept abusing and tortured MC to dead the whole story.

Who are never read novel with more bloody brutel and ruthless crazy ml, theres read EARNED FAVORS. You gonna crazy and crazy many time and want to slap the MC for... more>> accept ML at the end. <<less
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Burning_Rose
Burning_Rose
Aug 05, 2022
Status: c15
Despite the tags I still read it cuz it's written bu Huai Shang. But omg I regret reading it. The translation is incomplete and I think the translator did a good job abandoning the story.

The ML is just typical arrogant abusive rich kid who doesn't treat others as humans. Surroundings, characters and their families don't have a bit of positive traits.

While the MC is just depressed as hell cold and quite beauty who hates the ML and is quietly by his side. Rebelling and enduring with his own past and... more>> all that.

This novel's not for me. <<less
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sofourmore
sofourmore
Sep 13, 2024
Status: Completed
"I forgot my own surname the moment I laid my eyes on him."

I'd say that's a good line to summarize this novel and one that will stay with me because of the meaning around the entire story. I knew what type of work I was getting into, but I still didn't know what to expect from it. Thankfully I was pleasantly surprised. I started it because I couldn't resist listening to the recent audio drama adaptation. Despite finishing this with MTL, I thought overall it was a solid novel.

The plot... more>> is about Han Yue, a high ranking military official who becomes infatuated with Chu Ci at first sight. Chu Ci is an engineer who happened to cross paths with him, and from the day it happened his life went downhill. It centers around their relationship, how Chu Ci is forced to bear with Han Yue because he literally can't get away from the guy. He knows it very well after 2 years of knowing him, which is how the novel starts. But Chu Ci hides something, and once it's revealed to the reader, everything explodes.

The story mostly follows Han Yue, and while it's written in third person, the author focused a bit more on him. From start to finish, we see how Chu Ci becomes involved with him and all the things he goes through because of Han Yue's obsession with him. It isn't healthy, it is clear ab*se, one that Chu Ci cannot escape. I genuinely wish the novel was centered around Chu Ci instead, it would've added the emotional element that this needed because at times it felt flat. The pacing was great, but I would've wanted to see more of the actual beginning, not only in one extra. Seeing the violence progress would have been painful but it would also add angst which is something I crave from this type of stories. I mostly felt desperation, which is great given Chu Ci's circumstances, but it would've been interesting to see more from the victim's perspective. It was still good though, just personal preference.

The themes explored in the novel were well presented. First, there's corruption and privileged families controlling justice. Another is depression to the point of su*cide attempt as two of the major effects from (continuous) r*pe, harrassment and coercion. Finally there are revenge and betrayal. All of these elements are combined in a mature way, not only treated in surface but going all the way, especially regarding Chu Ci's physical and mental health as well as how protective people in power are about their own relatives, going to the extreme of shutting everyone down if that means their reputation and lives aren't disrupted.

The outcome from most of those elements was very satisfying. About the revenge plotline, (view spoiler). I felt resentment the most towards the mother and Han Yue's brother, because of the lack of responsability they were willing to take. I also despised Han Yue due to his treatment towards Chu Ci, although I confess at times I almost felt pity (due to his backstory) but then I recalled Chu Ci's condition and I hated him again. But this isn't to say the novel is bad due to having such character as the ML, nor that it's bad because I hate one of the main characters. Instead, it shows an interesting aproach about justice involving everyone that failed Chu C, whom represents the unprivileged ones. Even more so because this novel was written around 2010, but it has some relatively "modern" takes, which weren't as discussed before.

About the ending, although it appears as
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an open one, the extras lean into a HE (which I haven't read because according to some comments they're available on the printed chinese version only). I don't truly think it's a HE for both sides (it sure is for Han Yue), but I felt glad that Chu Ci finally found peace, what mattered to me is that he didn't have any regrets. I honestly wanted to have him dying because he'd get away from ML at least in death and for ML to face the consequences of his actions, but I'm fine with MC having hope by the end.

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FYalimar
FYalimar
Jul 25, 2024
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Honestly speaking, I expected more from this novel because for some reason that I don't remember before reading I saw a spoiler that the ab*sed MC mu*dered the ML's family and not one but several, so I thought that this was about a character that didn't He gives in to the ab*se and simply explodes in revenge, which was what caught my attention, because I'm tired of those ridiculous stories where the MC is cruelly ab*sed but forgives the scumbag ML without any further sense or reason and even ends... more>> up falling in love. I know about him, I wanted to see something different, something that said, "those things don't happen in real life, don't be delusional, it's most likely that people will end up going crazy and killing or committing su*cide from repetitive ab*se, no one can stand it." such things, we are humans, not divine beings made of love" but the truth is that this novel gave me exactly that, a plot with a main character who is cruelly ab*sed but who in the end falls in love with his ab*ser and they live together, the end!!!

The promised mu*der does come but it is not as I expected, in the first place the MC never killed the ML, being able to do so. All of this felt more like a revenge towards society than anything else, the novel makes a lot, a lot of emphasis. in the power of wealth and the terrible corruption in China where the upper class practically owns the lives of the poor, there is nothing you can't do with money in this society, it is a message that the author makes very clear again and again, it is more as if he is expressing his dissatisfaction with the current situation of his country than as if he were writing a novel, he wants to reflect all that through the characters and the final mu*der is just the revenge of the oppressed who They end up exploding and reminding them that they are still human no matter how much power they have. In fact the author said it verbatim in a chapter after he MC escaped, that "all the people in the upper class were looking for him to kill him because he made them feel insecure as if they were no longer gods", so this is a plot, it is not In my imagination, it is really more about a social revenge than a personal revenge, that is why it is possible to create an ending where the MC stays with the ML, because after the MC has vented his hatred towards the rich narcissists there is nothing that prevent him from accepting the ML's sadistic love calmly...

And all those physical and psychological ab*ses that the ML intentionally committed against him? How can he ignore them? What the hell is this!? Do ab*ses and r*pes matter so little today? Yes, that's right, all that goes into the background and not much importance is given at the end... That's why I say that the novel disappointed me, and that it was not what I expected, I came for the main story I wanted to see the scum suffer and die but instead I found a harsh criticism against corruption, it is a quite original topic, I admit it, but it is not what I wanted to read... <<less
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