#its Huai Dao's prequel

[rigelmejo]

Okay so I'm reading a priest novel that hasn't been fully translated yet and. Let me paint a picture for you.

It opens on a desert (getting Sha Hai dmbj vibes anyone). The narrator is a professor who's barely ever travelled far, now looking for a lost city.

There's a 30 ish year old guy on his archaeology team named Li San'er. Who has a tomb raiding uncle. Li San'er went to college and got a degree and is trying to change his family. (Its not just me. This gives major Wu Xie vibes right? Or at the minimum, is a fun little reference to the popular timb raiding genre of cnovels and possibly referencing a few tomb raiding stories generally)

This novel has to do with a gangster reincarnating, based on the summary intro, so like. I did not expect such a dmbj sha hai type vibe in the first chapter.