The Vow of Silver Dawn

The Vow of Silver Dawn, titled 《白银誓约》 in the original simplified Chinese, is a canon web-novel written by an author under the pseudonym "His Majesty the King." Announced in 2019, The Vow of Silver Dawn was written to incorporate Chinese culture to tell an authentic Star Wars story that would resonate with teenagers. Its chapters began to be released online on China Literature's Qidian web-novel platform on December 17, 2020 and concluded with chapter 324 on September 21, 2021. The story is set during the High Republic Era, in 200 BBY.

The web-novel follows a teenage Jedi Padawan Sean as he journeys through the Aakaash system, located far from the Jedi Temple on Coruscant he was familiar with. Adapting to the local culture, such as chopsticks and the native tongue, Sean realizes that the corporation ruling the Aakaash system is corrupt to the core; separated from his Jedi Master, Mostima, by the authorities, Sean works with local businessman Li Yu and his group of mercenaries to bring freedom to those whose individual rights were oppressed by the state-run corporate system and to find his master.

Publisher's summary

Original simplified Chinese:

充满活力、年轻气盛的绝地学徒肖恩，在一个偏远独立的乾星系中调查一起凶杀时，第一次遭遇了真正的黑暗。他被迫与师父分离，独自对抗崛起的邪恶。当他的绝地训练受到挑战，面临信仰危机时，他踏上自我发现之旅，希望为这个星系带来和平与正义。^[1]

An English translation:

The energetic, youthful Jedi Padawan Sean meets true darkness for the first time while investigating a murder in the remote and independent Aakaash system. He is separated from his master, resisting the rising evil alone. When his Jedi training and beliefs are challenged, he sets foot on a journey of self-discovery, hoping to bring peace and justice to this star system.''

Notes on translation and transliteration ‡

Official and unofficial

The web-novel was published in the simplified form of written Chinese.^[1] Matt Martin of the Lucasfilm Story Group gave the official English title of The Vow of Silver Dawn on Twitter,^[5] while the official promotional video for the web-novel on Weibo confirms the canonical spelling of "Sean," the novel's protagonist.^[4] Begamor and Aakaash's spelling were confirmed in the Star Wars Galaxy Map,^[6] with Mostima, Jamie Brasson, Nan Holi, Loongren, the Silver Knights, and the Land & Sky Corporation being confirmed as well in the 2023 reference book Star Wars: Timelines.^[7] All other translations and transliterations provided by Wookieepedia are unofficial and conjectural.

Translating and transliterating the content and words of the simplified Chinese–written web-novel into English for usage across Wookieepedia articles requires a standardized format, which is detailed as follows. It is assumed that the web-novel is read in Mandarin Chinese—the spoken Chinese language that is widely used in mainland China in conjunction with simplified Chinese characters. Therefore, for example, 陈 is transliterated as "Chen" based on the Mandarin pronunciation, rather than another Chinese language such as Cantonese, where 陈 (written as 陳 in traditional Chinese) is pronounced "Chan."

Characters being referred to by the Chinese personal pronouns 他, 她, and 它 are assumed to correspond to the English pronoun sets he/him, she/her, and it/its. There are a few instances of regional-specific Shanghainese terms in the web-novel. A very few words in the web-novel appear to have been censored, leaving blank spaces or asterisks amidst the rest of the text.

Transliterating names

Personal names

Each Chinese character, in the logosyllabic sense, is spoken with one syllable. Rather than translate the meaning of words, Chinese names are converted to the pinyin format, which is the standard romanization for Mandarin in mainland China and beyond, albeit without diacritics denoting tones (e.g. 安平 converted to An Ping, rather than Án Pǐng). Although 南鹤礼 in pinyin is "nán hè lǐ," Star Wars: Timelines names him as "Nan Holi."

Particularly relevant to formal writing where individuals are sometimes addressed by only their surname, Chinese names begin with the surname, as opposed to the European convention of ending with a surname. It is assumed that only the first character of a Chinese name is the surname, rather than having compound surnames. For example, Zhuang Yuanying is sometimes referred to as "Zhuang," her surname. For consistency, Chinese names with more than two syllables in the forename (e.g. Zhuang Yuanying) have their romanized forename grouped into one single group of letters (e.g. Yuanying) instead of being sorted into groups per the number of syllables (e.g. Yuan Ying or Yuan-ying).

However, names clearly derived from English are romanized and treated per English language conventions (e.g. 莫斯提马 and 杰米·布拉森 are Mostima and Jamie Brasson, respectively, based on the spelling provided by Star Wars: Timelines).

Interpretative romanizations

夏 has a variety of meanings and therefore it is simply romanized as "Xia" and capitalized since it is used as a proper noun or surname, such as the Xia capital and the Xia family. 龙人 can be translated as "dragon people," but Star Wars: Timelines uses the romanized form "Loongren." Loongren, as with 龙人, does not have a separate plural form since Chinese does not distinguish plural nouns using inflections such as the suffix "-s" in English.

When the Mandarin pronunciation corresponds with existing English Star Wars terminology (e.g. 科洛桑 in pinyin is "kē luò sāng," which resembles Coruscant; 米思罗尔 in pinyin is "mǐ sī luō ěr," which resembles Mythrol), they are assumed to refer to the corresponding subjects. Generally, English "r," "t," and "th" sounds do not exist in spoken Chinese (e.g. "r" and "th" sounds in English are typically substituted with what would be in English "l" and "s" sounds, respectively). Additionally, when the Chinese words in a new name have little meaning of their own, the sounds are transliterated into the the Latin script with the assumption that it is pronounced in a form of standard English, therefore producing anglicizations with conjectural spelling and capitalization (e.g. 卜哈 in pinyin is "bo hā," which could be anglicized as "boohar"). Transliterations could be combined with translations; since the web-novel uses 卜哈猫 and 猫 is the word for cat, it could be referred to as a boohar cat.

Ancient Chinese

The web-novel incorporates classical terms derived from the "Old Chinese" language, such as 乾 and 坤 in 乾坤集团. 集团 is a modern term for a company or corporation, and the reference book Star Wars: Timelines refers to it as "Land & Sky Corporation." In the context of Chinese philosophy, specifically the nearly three-millennia-old text I Ching, 乾 roughly refers to force or heaven, while 坤 roughly refers to flow or land. Additionally, the web-novel is set in 乾星系, alternately named 乾坤星系, where 星系 is the term for a star system. However, Star Wars: Timelines refers to it as the Aakaash system. Nevertheless, 乾坤, when used in other contexts, is translated as "Land & Sky," for example in Land & Sky currency. When separated, 乾 is translated as "Sky," for example in the Sky series engine model, while 坤 is translated as "Land," for example the Aakaash system's capital planet, Land. Other parts of the Aakaash system are named 兌, 離, 震, 巽, 坎, and 艮, which in the context of I Ching roughly corresponds with Lake, Fire, Thunder, Wind, Water, and Mountain, respectively.

Idioms

The web-novel frequently uses Chinese idioms derived from Chinese poetry over the millennia. Their literary meaning is dependent on the context of their usage and may not be apparent in prose, but the following list and the "Behind the scenes" sections of relevant articles may attempt to explain such idioms.

• 红杏出墙 (red apricots reaching beyond the wall): refers to the disobedience of customs in chapter 61. The red apricot squad (红杏小队) was named after this phrase. It is traditionally written as 紅杏出牆, originating from a^[8] Southern Song (1127–1279) era poem by 葉紹翁 (Ye Shaoweng)^[9] titled 遊園不值. As the title suggests, it describes an unsuccessful visit to a garden; it was closed, but he saw some red blossoms of spring (apricots) reaching out of the wall.^[10] The phrase 紅杏出牆 later became an innuendo for sexual affairs.^[8]
• 请君入瓮 (may thou enter the jar): refers to luring another person into a trap of their own device in both the title and prose of chapter 104, from Sean's perspective regarding Xia Xi. It is traditionally written as 請君入甕 and refers to a conversation between two Tang-era secret police officials during Empress Wu's reign (690–705) about how to extract a confession—one suggested threatening to cook the person inside a jar, prompting the other official to use that tactic against him.^[11]

Plot summary

A despot of capital and a corporate conspiracy

During the High Republic Era, in 200 BBY,^[3] Jedi Padawan Sean and his teacher, Master Mostima, are sent to the planet Begamor to uncover the corrupt nature of its ruler and representative in the Galactic Republic's Senate, Jamie Brasson. After successfully infiltrating the despot's manor and completing his mission, Sean is sent to investigate the murder of Nan Holi alongside his master by the Jedi Council.

Nan Holi was an executive member of the corporation that ruled the largely independent Aakaash system in the Oplovis sector, far from the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Nan was an advocate for his star system to further integrate with the Republic despite the local populace's independent tendencies. While Nan Holi studied the Force extensively and was cautious for his own security, the businessman was killed at his own secluded estate, which Sean and Mostima inspect. The two Jedi are briefly detained by Xia Yan, the Land & Sky Corporation Security Bureau's leader. Xia wanted the Jedi to leave and drop their investigation, though Mostima threatens to kill herself, which would result in more Jedi being sent to investigate the Aakaash system. Xia is thus forced to detain the Jedi, and he chooses to detain them in Nan Holi's villa. During their stay, however, the Jedi duo are separated by a pirate raid on Nan's estate, and Sean is forced to handle the conspiracy himself. Meanwhile, weary of the Jedi Order and the Republic, the ruling corporation of the system works to frame the Jedi for Nan Holi's death with the goal of ensuring their hold on power.

Sean is rescued from the pirates by the Silver Dawn, captained by Li Yu and White, leaders of the Silver Knights. Indebted to Li and sought by the system's authorities, Sean, concealing his identity as a Jedi, decides to work as a Knight to pay off his debts, biding his time before leaving to rejoin Master Mostima. The Knights, a group of mercenaries who mainly work to support their community back home in the wastelands of the planet Wind, invite Sean to the elite red apricot squad, named after a local phrase which meant disobeying customs. Sean thus works alongside group leader An Ping, master sniper Lu Nan, the medic Xu Bo, and the expert mechanic Zhuang Yuanying. Together, aboard the ship red apricot, they pursue a lost Silver Dawn shipment of xuanming, a deadly biological hazard to be used as the core raw material of a new biological water-purifying device.

Questionable ethics with the Silver Dawn

State law enforcement versus state-subsidized crime

After a chaotic visit to the space station named Fire, red apricot squad traces the shipment to the Blue Dragon, the most powerful paramilitary force in the system, which had been allowed to take the biological hazard by the station's masters. While the squad realizes that they have been manipulated by the ambitious manager of the station, Zhang Jincheng, in his attempt to bring down the Blue Dragon pirates, Sean boosts red apricot squad's morale by suggesting that they place the blame of recent misfortunes on the manager after raiding the Dragon. Seeing that the Blue Dragon was affiliated with the star system's corrupt authorities through the contact Chief Ning Tao, an official of the Security Bureau, An Ping leads red apricot squad in an attempt to capture the official on the asteroid Lake 4399 and ransom him to the Dragon for the return of the xuanming.

Just before the raid on Lake 4399, Xu Bo tells Sean that sparing enemy lives may jeopardize the entire operation and result in their deaths. Xu Bo also speculates that the elite Security Bureau guards protecting Chief Ning Tao may all be corrupt officers, as such would be the type of people Zhang may employ for his secret dealings. While Xu Bo further adds that the enemies they are about to face may all be innocent of any crimes, and that to kill them would be to become a murderer of innocents, Xu Bo states that what matters is one's choice between the dichotomy of whether to always be a pure, good person, or to be a person who can act to achieve things. Finally, the medic Xu Bo states that the more experienced a doctor, the more errors—sometimes lethal—they would make, and that there is one type of doctor who never makes an error or accidentally kill their patients, always remaining cleared of any wrongdoing: a doctor who never acts.

After killing multiple squads of security guards and a group of high-ranking associates of Chief Ning Tao, red apricot squad captures Zhang and finds out that he was holding slaves to fulfill his and his men's sadistic pleasures. While the mission was a success, Sean's disguises were useless in every turn of his attempt to infiltrate Zhang's stronghold. Xu Bo explains that the reason for Sean's failure was that he was good-looking; by rule of thumb, corrupt evil-doers had ugly faces. An Ping then forces Zhang to contact the Blue Dragon, telling them to come to the base with the xuanming in hand. Thus, the dragon head, their leader, personally arrives at Lake 4399, receiving a warm welcome from their friends amongst the Security Bureau forces.

The dragon head returns the xuanming to red apricot squad and leaves, though not before destroying several vials of the Land & Sky Corporation's dark yellow blood (玄黄血), an invaluable substance rumored to grant immortality. With Zhang's jurisdiction now responsible for massive losses of the corporation's assets, Zhang is left to die at the corporation's hands. Before red apricot squad could leave Zhang's base aboard their ship, however, Sean hires them to rescue the twenty-seven slaves who would be otherwise left to die at the base. To rescue the slaves, red apricot squad requires their cooperation. However, the slaves were established by the system's authorities to be dead and thus could not reclaim their old identities or rejoin their loved ones.

The democracy of freeing slaves and letting slavers go

While some slaves remained skeptical of whether the squad would truly rescue them or did not desire a new life, some other slaves were determined to live, for where there is life, there is hope. All the slaves eventually agree to be rescued from Lake 4399. To rescue the slaves, red apricot squad also requires the assistance of Zhang, who reluctantly agrees to help after Li Yu offered to smuggle him out of the Aakaash system to safety afterwards.

After loading the goods stored in Zhang's vault on the asteroid onto an armored freighter containing the twenty-seven slaves, red apricot squad, with Zhang piloting the armored transport, battles an elite squadron of Blue Dragon starfighters in space aboard the red apricot. The squad and their transport destroy most of the Blue Dragon forces, though Sean discovers that Zhuang Yuanying is a non-human while treating her injuries. Red apricot returns to the home of the Knights of Silver Dawn on Wind, and Zhang circumvents Wind's satellite defense network to allow for the Land & Sky Corporation–marked armored freighter to follow suit.

The slaves are set free to find new lives for themselves in the abandoned wastelands of Wind, though Sean realizes that they have lost everything but their lives. While the Jedi Padawan was uncertain of what to say to the survivors, Li Yu arrives to reassure them that Wind's abandoned area is free of the Land & Sky Corporation's evils of violating individual rights, and he offers work for the survivors so that they may build up enough capital for themselves to live in whatever way they choose, reigniting their hope. Li Yu also honors his deal with Chief Ning Tao, respecting his property rights and allowing him to take his 23.14 million credits. As part of their deal, Li also gives Zhang a ship ticket to the Republic Core Worlds.

Li ushers Zhang to a nearby hostel and detains him there before the eyes of Sean, exclaiming that the Land & Sky Corporation official was scum for enslaving other individuals, which would have granted Zhang ten death penalties and 200 years of imprisonment in courts. Sean also deduces that letting Zhang—whom he refers to as a "Land & Sky Corporation thug"—go would imperil the Knights' position in the wastelands of Wind as the local population would be displeased. Li asserts, however, that while the majority of the population may oppose letting go in a poll, if he ignores the population's expressed wishes and decides to do so, at least half of the population would back him on-site. Li explains with confidence that many people trust him more than themselves. Li also states that while killing Zhang would fulfill a democratic, collective wish of the majority people and also give them 23 million credits, letting Zhang go would tell everyone in the Aakaash system that the Knights of Silver Dawn can help those wishing to escape the system. While Sean was confused, Li stated that it was simply the truth; any corrupt, oppressive organization would inevitably hurt those within it, prompting such victims—however corrupt themselves—to tear down the entire apparatus.

Voyage to the capital

Questions

Sean realizes that letting go would cause more Land & Sky Corporation victims such as Zhang to have a change of hearts; to rebel against the authorities and lead to their demise. Li assures the teenager that he was only looking out for his own long-term profits, encouraging a change of hearts within the corporation to increase the likelihood of more business opportunities with deserters such as Zhang. Later at night, Sean secretly visits Zhang in search of answers regarding the status of the Aakaash system.

Sean asks whether Xia Yan had any conflicts with the Nan family, and is told that the Xia family had always competed against the Nan family, but by a millennia-old custom, Aakaash system politics forbade war between the four great families of the ruling corporation. Sean also learns that Xia Yan listened to no one but the Xia family's elder council, which elevated Xia to his current position as the Security Bureau leader in the first place. Additionally, while seeking information on Master Mostima, Sean learns that even Zhang, the Security Bureau Lake branch branch leader, had not heard of the pirate attack on the Nan Holi villa.

Together, Sean and Zhang deduce that the only possible culprit behind the pirate attack on Nan Holi's villa would be a member of the Nan family. Zhang tells Sean that the culprit could have been Nan Yujin, though a guard enters Zhang's room soon after, taking him to his ship off-world. Sean was thus forced to leave to evade detection, and the Jedi Padawan returns to red apricot squad's base. There he is met by Li Yu, who reveals that he knows, though does not care for, Sean's secret of being a Jedi who antagonized a high-ranking member of the Land & Sky Corporation. Li emphasizes that he rescued Sean not for his status, but for his skills and character, and further reveals that Sean's next job is to escort an anonymous individual—secretly Nan Moyou, the daughter of Nan Holi—from Wind to the planet Land's Xia capital, the capital city of the Aakaash system, and that that individual is privy to information regarding the other Jedi involved in the pirate attack on the Nan family villa.

Ferrying the mysterious client, the Silver Dawn—with Li Yu, White, Sean, and the ship's crew aboard—travels from Wind to Land with a detour through the Lake asteroid field, which was personally chosen by the client. Sean attempts to make contact with the client, though the latter remains inside her cabin. The crew thus speculates that the two were lovers, drawing connections between their mission to rescue Sean at the Nan family villa and the present situation to form a logical possibility that their client is a scion of one of the four ruling families of the Land & Sky Corporation, yet is barred from marrying Sean for his relative lowliness. While Sean has nothing to say about such speculation, he found leads in certain points raised by the crew. The Silver Dawn is ambushed in the Lake asteroid field soon afterwards, and Sean is dispatched to maintain the ship as a mechanic.

Secrets

While saving the Silver Dawn by replenishing lost coolants, Sean encounters the mysterious client and, openly using the Force, saves her from wiring that had come off the walls due to the fighting. The battle is eventually won, and the client asks Sean to open a metal box that was electronically sealed. When Sean forcefully opens it though the Force, the client suddenly takes away the box and retreats to her quarters. There, she is contacted by Li Yu, who asks for her progress with Sean. Nan Moyou states that she thought Sean would not provide the answers she seeks, and tells Li that the only option going forward is to find the other Jedi. Afterwards, since the Silver Dawn was attacked on a route personally chosen by Nan, Li invites his client to join him in interrogating three captured ambushers.

After revealing that the attack was organized by He Shan of the Vermilion Birds, the captives are mercilessly executed on the spot by Li in revenge for two of his men dying during the previous battle, shocking Nan. However, Li states that each and every member of the Knights of Silver Dawn are family, and raises the point that she might do the same to the people who murdered her beloved father. Li further rationalizes that, since the laws of civilization would not protect his people, killing the captive pirates was the only option to protect his people. Sean watches on in secret as White brings out the next batch of captives.

The next three captives reveal that while the Vermilion Birds' attack was led by He Shan, their presence was orchestrated by an outsider. Li gathers that the outsider is Nan Moyou, who admits her part in hiring the pirates to ensure her safety while aboard the Silver Dawn. Nan also expresses her anger that she was betrayed by the pirates, who attacked the Knights of Silver Dawn and nearly killed her. In particular, one of the captives who were executed was Nan Zaizhou, Nan Holi's secretary who was Moyou's uncle figure. Moyou also expresses puzzlement as to why Zaizhou, who was wealthier than her, risked his own life to betray her. Li abruptly interrupts Moyou's thoughts, asking how her father died. Nan replies that she does not know, which was the reason why she hired the Knights of Silver Dawn to investigate the Nan family estate to gather evidence, and expressed her regret that the only evidence is a box that no one could open. Li awkwardly changes the subject, and announces that the interrogation is over. However, one of the captives pleads for his own survival by offering further information.

As the captive steps forward, he recognizes Nan as the heir to the Nan family and asks if she was the one who hired the Vermilion Birds to disturb Land & Sky security on Lake 9527—the location of the Nan family villa. While Li rants about the ruling class' incompetence, Nan reveals that she contacted the Vermilion Birds through the late, treacherous Nan Zaizhou, which would explain why all of the Vermilion Birds pirates know of her identity. After Li prompted him to continue, the captive said that the pirates only attacked the Silver Dawn in pursuit of Nan since she owed them payment for the Lake 9527 job. While Nan insists that she fulfilled the payment, Li asks White to investigate the status of the overdue money, and White reports that the money is being withheld by the Nans' bank because her processing fee had expired. Nan to fulfill her contract with the Vermilion Birds, and the situation is settled in peace.

Trust and power

Trust and family

The Silver Dawn lands on Land, and Li Yu and Sean discuss the Nan family as Nan Moyou departs for a Land & Sky Corporation meeting about her inheritance. Li explains that the Knights and the Nan family work together for mutual benefit, which leads Li to hope that the Nan family's new leader would not be unwilling to continue working with the Knights. Should the Knights be robbed of their ally, Li plans to bring down the Land & Sky Corporation's headquarters, the skytop, with him. While Li recognizes that a peace provided by threat is a fragile peace at best, and that his plan may be opposed by some of his Knights, Li states that a good leader never surrenders to people's opinions, and that a leader should withstand people's opposition to do the right thing. Li elaborates that as an outlaw, one should never expect to be protected by the rules of civilization. Li also states that he wishes the Knights to become a legitimate organization, though he teaches Sean to be practical and focus on what is closer ahead, such as the Nan family succession and the people around him. Li Yu then tells Sean that he, having saved everyone aboard the Silver Dawn during the previous battle, has become part of the family of the Knights of Silver Dawn, and is responsible for helping to repair the embattled Silver Dawn.

After spending an entire day repairing, Sean is told by Li Yu of a new lead on the events on Lake 9527. In the Xia capital, Li had talked to a survivor of the pirate raid there, and the survivor revealed that all of the colleagues he had lost contact with were located inside the Nan family villa during the raid. Li thus deduces that the Land & Sky Corporation is attempting to cover up a secret that occurred inside the villa. Li also informs Sean that he is high up on the internal, non-public wanted list of Land & Sky security, accused of killing Nan Holi. While Sean wishes to be smuggled out of the Aakaash system as Chief Ning Tao did, Li strongly warns against it, stating that the Hutt Kong Zhang, who helped the chief escape the system, is secretly in league with the system's ruling corporation. However, as the Silver Dawn departs Land, Li raises the possibility that the Knights may be able to help Sean escape the Aakaash system.

Meanwhile, Nan Moyou rests in a hotel in the Xia capital after a long conference on skytop regarding her inheritance. She is visited by her uncle Nan Yujin, and while she had enjoyed a happy childhood with Yujin, Moyou forces herself to assess the situation with logic instead of emotion and decides that Yujin is not to be trusted. Yujin, who had just returned from Muunilinst to hear that his brothers Nan Holi and Nan Qianyu have died and that Moyou endured a pirate attack, expressed concern for Moyou. While Moyou resists the urge to embrace her uncle's kindness, she accepts his help, determined to gain his support in reclaiming her inheritance. Probing the seemingly selfless Yujin, Moyou asks if her recollection that Yujin disliked handling family business matters was true. Yujin replies that he simply disliked working with his brother, Nan Holi.

Yujin elaborates that, during their childhood, he disliked being ordered around by Holi. And while Holi managed the family business and kept it afloat, Yujin was free to do as he liked, drawing Holi's envy that Yujin was free to have the time and effort to make Nan Moyou happy by gifting her a Mon Calamari toy. While Moyou remains suspicious of Yujin for steering her emotions, she agrees to his proposal that they travel to skytop and acquaint with the corporation's ruling board of directors in preparation of taking over as the Nan family leader.

The foundation of power

On skytop, Nan Moyou expresses her desire to bring justice for herself as the rightful heir of the Nan family. However, Yujin states that justice does not matter in the Land & Sky Corporation; there is no justice amongst the four great families, which has ruled the Aakaash system for over two millennia. Moyou then asks what is important. Yujin replies that wisdom only makes one calculating, focusing on gains and losses and in pursuit of so-called justice—yet justice itself rocks the very heart of the foundation of the corporation's rule. Ergo, the people of skytop would value a person's subjective will more so than their wisdom.

Moyou does not comprehend Yujin's words, so the latter further states that the core of power is the dismissal of calculating gains and losses, the disregard of justice and axioms, and to do as one desires; what is spoken, the law follows. To take power, one must simply act. Yujin tells to Moyou remember that the four great families have a monopoly over power, and reminds her not to become a puppet of power. Yujin further reminds Moyou that Nan Holi, as a member of the corporation's board of directors, was directly involved in corruption, having pocketed public funding to build his family villa. While Moyou was reluctant to accepts Yujin's words, she follows his lead and listens to his advice as they traverse the corridors of skytop.

The two meet Nan Qiwen, an elderly member of the board of directors' secretariat. At his request, Qiwen gives Yujin a classified copy of the minutes of the previous day's board of directors' meeting. Yujin then meets with Chen Lu of the board of directors, who was also a leading member of the Chen family and the manager of the recent meeting agendas. Yujin asks Chen to grant Moyou attendance at the board's conferences and Chen agrees, arranging a nonvoting seat for Moyou. After parting with Chen, Yujin recommends that Moyou stay at the Xia capital to gain influence with the four families' elders, although Moyou, choosing to rely on only her power, decides to return to Wind, the Nan family's headquarters. Before she leaves, Yujin asks how Nan Zaizhou, who he thinks would be more protective of Moyou, is faring. While still shocked by Zaizhou's betrayal, Moyou finds the question to be unavoidable as Yujin was her lone supporter.

Realizing that news of Zaizhou's betrayal would spread sooner or later, Nan Moyou tells Yujin that Zaizhou had arranged a pirate ambush to assassinate her and froze her bank account. She also tells Yujin of the recent incidents that befell herself, and both of the Nan family members find the fact that the elder council tolerated the "accidental" death of Nan Holi and the attempted assassination of Moyou suspicious. By virtue of the Silver Dawn's surprising victory over the pirate ambush in the Lake asteroid field, Moyou and Yujin decide that the Knights of Silver Dawn were their most powerful ally. While the Nan family should not put any trust in their business partners—and the Knights are no exception—Yujin says that they must allow the Knights to get near—though not enter—the family's inner ring of power to gain their trust.

A combination of work and rest

At red apricot squad's base on Wind, Sean is given two weeks of mandatory rest—rest had become mandatory as some Knights had the tendency to overwork themselves to death. An Ping also explains that most people hate it when one amongst them excels in their work, and that doing so in a company would undermine the benefit of the collective whole of the group as its boss would demand that the whole group follow the outstanding member's lead to work harder. While Sean does not understand An Ping's logic, he is invited to spar with An Ping. An Ping dislocates his limbs to prioritize speed and extend his reach, which would surely kill even a Jedi if An Ping had a dagger in hand. Sean realizes that he underestimated An Ping's skills, and that the captain's moves are as deadly as they are unpredictable.

After Sean's cookery lesson–turned–brawl with Lu Nan in the kitchen regarding Lu's poor cooking techniques, Xu Bo argues with Lu Nan regarding her violence against Sean. When Xu Bo mentions how Little An's sense of taste was lost to food poisoning at Lu Nan's hands, Xu Bo is shot in the chest. While Little An is the subject of psychological trauma for Lu Nan, Lu had the blaster bolt on a non-lethal setting to prevent killing her team mates. Amidst the awkward silence, Sean asks who Little An was.

However, the heated, blaster-raised response that was expected from Lu Nan by the other members of red apricot squad never surfaced. Instead, Lu Nan directed the question back at Sean, asking who he was. Sean is left speechless, and Lu Nan invites him to train handling a blaster downstairs. While the two left, An Ping and Xu Bo speculate that Lu Nan's unusual response was due to Sean's resemblance to Little An, who was Lu Nan's little brother and who left Lu in a decade-long state of madness. Xu Bo further points out that unlike An, Sean bore no blood relation to Lu Nan, suggesting a growing romantic relationship between Sean and Lu Nan. Xu Bo and An Ping thus spy on Sean and Lu Nan in the training grounds below.

Below, as An Ping poises to stamp Xu Bo in the eye with his middle finger for suggesting a romantic relationship between Sean and Lu Nan, the two spies are spotted by Lu. After exchanging unpleasantries with the two, Lu Nan sends them away and continues training Sean. In the evening, Lu Nan tells Zhuang Yuanying that Sean was not to be let out of the base per Li Yu's orders. The squad speculates that Li did not want Sean to hear of bad news from Lake 9527, and deduces that Sean only joined the Kngihts of Silver Dawn to use its intelligence network for news of a person lost on Lake 9527 whom he cared about. The next day, as part of his martial arts course, An Ping offers to teach Sean about the inner self to balance his fighting techniques. Sean eagerly accepts, seeing that the idea resonates deeply with Jedi teachings. However, Lu Nan swears at the notion, thinking that it is idiotic and feeling gravely disappointed by Sean.

Rule of law, or rule by law?

Hidden lair

On the third day of training, Zhuang Yuanying takes Sean to the lowest level of the base. A factory, the level contained Sky Three, a starship engine model that was designed by North River Industries 700 years ago and was the most common ship engine in the Aakaash system. Zhuang teaches Sean how to modify an otherwise ruined Sky Three into a smaller yet functional engine. When Sean does the modification himself, he enters a trance-like state in the Force, although he is disturbed by the collapse of Zhuang Yuanying, who fell to the ground unconscious, breathing violently.

Zhuang reawakens and storms off to the deepest level of the base. Sean follows, although he is thwarted by the base's automatic defense system. However, the remainder of red apricot squad joins Sean and deactivates the system, leading Sean to the base's deepest level. To Sean's astonishment, he finds a medbay containing lumps of flesh as well as several dragon-like individuals—who share Zhuang's characteristic of possessing two horns on the forehead. Zhuang herself was inside, sleeping by one of the medbay's red-orange containers, which are filled with nutritional fluid.

An Ping explains that the medbay had served as a retreat for Zhuang Yuanying for over a decade, and that Zhuang suffered from traumas as a subject of experiments, although she had been rescued by Gu Zheng, the former leader of red apricot squad. While An Ping and the other squad members pick up Zhuang and turn to leave, Sean realizes that the equipment in the medbay bore labels of Xia Moist Pharmaceuticals, a company closely connected to the Aakaash system's government. Astounded that such a mega-corporation conducted inhumane experiments on people, an angered Sean questions if there were actually any laws in the star system.

Red apricot squad find Sean's naïve question to be ludicrous, although Sean elaborates that while he understands laws may be ineffective in solving issues, issues would only increase if everyone abandoned them. While Sean concedes that acting outside of the system of law is necessary when the law is ineffectual, people must always uphold the bottom line of the law, regardless of vigilantes' benevolence. Despite Sean's speech, red apricot squad remain unconvinced, having already lost faith in the Aakaash system's system of law. As they move on, An Ping tells Sean that the laws of the star system will not protect Zhuang Yuanying; by law, Zhuang could not enjoy full individual rights—the peaceful life she has now is inherently criminal, and they themselves are complicit in helping a fugitive.

Particular cultural values of ethnic repression and organ harvesting

Sean and An Ping continue to discuss the Aakaash system authorities' restrictions on Zhuang Yuanying's very existence. Sean remains skeptical, and points out that while Zhuang only featured two horns, there were countless other aliens of much stranger appearances in the galaxy; the slithery Anacondans are allowed to live on Fire, which is under the Land & Sky Corporation's jurisdiction as well.

Yet An Ping refutes Sean's argument, sarcastically asking whether Sean is suggesting that a living being's rights should be decided based on the closeness of their appearance to humans, with Anacondans being used as a contradictory example. The captain further states that whether a life-form or a group deserves rights or not cannot be decided by one person. Who gave Sean such authority? An Ping argues on: Sean, in determining that Zhuang deserves rights with righteous anger, reached such rash decisions as to destroy Zhuang's medical equipment; such ways are little different to those of dictators and tyrants. Sean sees that An Ping is correct—the power to determine whether a life-form deserves rights rests, unfortunately in the case of the Aakaash system, in the Land & Sky Corporation.

Sean queries why the corporation would wish to persecute such a person as Zhuang Yuanying, and is met with a Lu Nan–esque mocking laughter from An Ping. Such an act greatly discomforts Sean, who feels as though all of his thoughts remained within another's control; as if the conversation was rehearsed, with himself playing but a complementary role. An Ping replies that there is no need for a reason in persecuting a race; or rather, any one reason is enough to persecute a race. While the Aakaash system has a population of a hundred billion, there are very few non-human inhabitants outside of Fire. Sean and An Ping rule out the possibility that the system is far too remote, and the captain explains that the people of the star system simply do not like foreigners.

Many of the system genuinely believe in resisting foreign ideas. Despite prosperity brought by closer ties with the Republic, historical practices do not disappear, so while species from abroad are treated as guests, the Aakaash system's natives were never liberated. While Sean states that such discrimination is in breach of Republic values and suggests that Republic intervention would solve the issue, An Ping interjects, expressing disappointment in Sean's faith in the Republic to shine its light on the shadows of the Aakaash system's corruption; where there is light, there is always darkness.

Sean admits that the Republic is imperfect, and knows in his heart that the Republic must have knowledge of the racial persecution occurring in its allied system—and yet does nothing about it. Without his master, Sean realizes that he must solve the situation by himself. An Ping hammers in his point: as beings of similar status as monkey-lizards, the Loongren, even if set free by Republic legal mandate, will remain precious testing material for Xia Moist Pharmaceuticals, and as a mega-corporation, they will not let go; measures, such as seemingly innocuous contracts signed at birth and laws that allow the reclamation of anyone attempting to breach said contracts, are in place to ensure continual control over those people's lives as medical supply. Ultimately, the Aakaash system's laws are in place to restrict individual freedoms and rights. The Padawan, having naïvely believed in the system of law, is left torn and undecided.

Collective might makes right

Feeling that the secrets of Zhuang Yuanying and her people are tied to his investigation of the Aakaash system, Sean delves into the underground base's database for information on the Loongren. Data show that the people were active long before colonists first arrived, and reliable records of them gradually decreased to zero three centuries past. With horns on the head and supernatural physical prowess, the Loongren once served as religious leaders in the early phases of colonization, telling fortunes, making offerings, and praying for rainfall, leaving a legacy of legends and folklore amongst the colonists, such as the Loongren summoning winds and rains and controlling the weathers of entire worlds.

The records also reveal that as the colonists' civilization evolved, the Loongren were ostracized from society and blamed for misfortunes. The people were gradually persecuted by the colonists, long before the time of the Land & Sky Corporation. Sean thus determined that as long as the wheels of history continue to repeat itself, even the dismantling of the corporation would not stop the persecution of the Loongren. Sean thus travels to a nearby tavern named Omnivore in the wastelands of Wind in search of more information about the Loongren.

Newspeak, enforced disappearances, and foreign interference

Meanwhile, Li Yu gathers in a Xia capital tavern that just over a month ago, a man with the blessing of the Xia family walked into the bar and hired the Vermilion Birds to assassinate Nan Moyou. The man, Nan Zhaizhou, provided detailed plans, and claimed that he worked for the Ma family—one of the four great families—and the plot had received clearance from the company board of directors beforehand. However, Li thinks that the story was made up, since he heard in two taverns and a bar droid gave an exceptionally spirited and detailed account of the deal. Li decides to relay his findings word-for-word back to his client, Nan Yujin; Li believes that Nan wanted a false account. White points out that the information holds grave significance for Nan Moyou and the Nan family, asking Li whether he wanted to side with Nan Yujin or Nan Moyou. As Li argues with White, he claims that Nan Moyou had decided to trust Nan Yujin, and that none of them had a choice in letting the matter play out.

Li then meets with Chen Xuangan, a renowned information broker of the Aakaash system's underworld who traded solely with information rather than material goods. Taking a Zhurong model through the Xia capital with White, Li enters a decrepit tavern and meets a Gotal—a rare sight in the star system since a group of Gotals disappeared in the Fire space station around a hundred years ago with no logical explanation from the Land & Sky Corporation. Li asks for the status of the survivors from the pirate raid on Lake 4399. The Gotal immediately replies that most of the servants are alive, under house arrest. Li speculates that the servants who have seen some of the state secrets in the villa's basement would not be allowed to leave freely, and he presses the Gotal on a "special" person who was at the raid. The Gotal shows Li the latest Xia capital news report: Land & Sky security believes that Nan Holi's murderer was the Jedi Master Mostima, sent by the Galactic Republic.

In the Omnivore bar, a gruff miner recounts the little knowledge he had of the Loongren when he lived in the city, with the dragon-like people being frequently assaulted by rocks on the streets. He was typically unenthused by the Xia capital news, feeling cynical about the news channel constantly chiming false positivity about the Aakaash system when many people were relegated to the wastelands in reality. While the miner thought the news of Nan Holi's murder inquiry was pointless and boring given the utter irrelevance of whoever was in power to the lower classes of society, Sean watched the news intently. A patron walked toward the television to switch channels but felt an immense fear as he approached and left the place instead; the news continued playing even when no one at the bar wanted to watch it. The news broadcast shows Mostima in the uppermost floor's conference room in the Jade City Hotel, seemingly cooperating with the state investigation, and insinuates that Nan's death was orchestrated by foreign forces, given his family's prominence in the financial order within the star system. Sean leaves the bar in a hurry, overhearing in dread as the broadcast mentions that the Jedi Master had received assistance from the Knights of Silver Dawn.

Solo sojourn

A break from brainwashing

Li Yu returns to the red apricot squad's base to hear that they had failed to keep track of Sean; the Jedi had disappeared in the wastelands of Wind, evading the Knights of Silver Dawn. The Padawan speculates that the news report either indicates that the Knights of Silver Dawn had a hand in his Jedi Master's false testimony; or is a sign that the Land & Sky Corporation has knowledge of his involvement with the Knights and threatens to quash the group unless Sean surrenders himself. Additionally thinking that the state media is "brainwashing" the populace to believe in their slander of the Republic, Sean plans to stow away to the Xia capital's Jade City Hotel and find his master alone. The Jedi left without saying goodbye to the Knights, wanting to eventually meet them again.

Hiding on the Great camel-head class cargo ship Bountiful Harvest heading to the Xia capital, Sean overhears the crew's chatter and learns that he was hiding amidst illicit cargo, including smuggled weapons and intellectual property–violating knock-offs of medicinal substances produced in the wastelands. The Padawan believes that he has been caught in a trap by the Knights. Indeed, he meets an individual strong in the Force and connected to the dark side who claimed that they had been hired to bring Sean alive to the space city of Fire so that he may rejoin his detained Jedi Master and allow the corporation to complete its business and return the pair to Coruscant. The bounty hunter threatens to start killing the innocent passengers outside the cargo bay unless the Jedi locks himself back into the box in which he had been hiding and throws what Sean thinks to be a thermal detonator; however, it is a false detonator, instead playing a popular, festive Huttese jingle. All the while, Sean is taunted by his opponent, but the Padawan attempts to remain calm and emotionally unaffected, using his lightsaber to damage the ship's systems. However, as crew members enter the cargo bay ostensibly to fix the ship, one of them incapacitates Sean.

A Security Bureau's welcome

Security Bureau Director Xia Yan speaks with the assassin—who is named Xia Xi (夏溪) and is his brother—but they are interrupted by news of the ship's failing engines. While Sean modifies the Sky Three engine with the help of the agent and the ship's engineer, Tang, the ship's captain had been reminded of an old Aakaash system idiom that means when the powerful fight, ordinary people suffer. He had brought his daughter along for the trip and was paid a lowly wage as an employee of the Security Bureau, resorting to smuggling between Wind and Land. Nevertheless, he and his crew cooperated with the young Jedi to fix the ship and were unwilling to heed Xia Xi's order to re-capture Sean. Xia stabbed a crew member as a threat, but Sean managed to subdue the agent and convince the crew to let him crash the ship into the space city of Fire's least prosperous district, Dark Sky district nine.

The crashed ship is surrounded by troops led by Xia Jiang (夏姜), who find that Xia Xi had let Sean go after a brief scuffle in which the agent stole the Padawan's lightsaber. The agent tells his brother Xia Yan via comlink that the only way to counter the young Jei is not by direct force but by exploiting his cleverness and to show him the price of his pursuit of justice—before he could form a clear understanding of the full picture like his master and become another impenetrable enemy. Xia Xi claims that he had allowed Sean to reach Fire because the conditions there would be optimal in planting the seeds of doubt that he hoped would eventually crumble the Jedi's worldview. The Security Bureau chief agrees and tasks his brother with handling Sean, and the agent, with the effect of his mad blood wearing off, is taken to the prestigious Nirvana hospital in Dark Sky district two by Xia Jiang's forces despite their reluctance to help the man who had allowed a starship to crash into the space station. They had been threatened by Xia Xi, such as hinting at sending a bomb to the deputy Luo Ming's (罗明) girlfriend after reciting from his thoughts of reuniting for their anniversary at 422 Pacific Street, Yellow Sky district seven.

Bitter lessons

Sean quickly discovers that a bounty of twenty million units of the Aakaash currency has been placed on him, with corporate security and mercenaries guarding Dark Sky district nine's checkpoints to the most populous Dark Sky districts eight and seven. While hiding in a dump, Sean has a vision of his past in a courtyard of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Someone was helping him to learn to walk, and he was waved over to a pavilion by a person there—an unforgettable face asks Sean if he remembered them. Sean awakes from his dream to someone who has been treating his injuries for three days. The Jedi sees a middle-aged wanderer he likens to an artist in a small cave with belongings gathered from all nine districts; the person urges Sean to drink the congee they had made for him while it was hot. The person introduces himself as Wang Yi (王毅), a top tier doctor of the Nirvana hospital who had tried to save Ma Wanli, of one of the four great families, but was charged with the crime of "disregarding human life out of an overreach of ambition for his work." Wang holds saving lives as his duty and had been living as a hermit in the wastes for five years, deeming those that focus on the bounty on his head to be greedy gangsters.

Wang brings Sean to the food court of Dark Sky district seven and had Ma's soup, run by a Gungan and authentically cooking in big pots with poor-quality tinned bantha meat. The pair briefly meet Wang's daughter, Wang Lu (王露), and the Jedi realizes that the doctor has been remaining optimistic while living in the wastes on Fire because he could still see his largely estranged daughter. Sean then parts ways with Wang to stay in the district, overhearing a pair of Mon Calamari shipwrights debating whether to leave Fire, where they have found employment repairing hangars, and move to Land, where the North River corporation are setting up a heavy industry company but where they would receive less equal treatment. The Mon Calamari then discussed the seeming retrenchment of civil order on the space city, including their witness of armed thugs serving as law-enforcement officers forcibly taking away a homeless man despite the cries of Wang Lu.

Sean makes his way to district two, where the Nirvana hospital is located, intending to save the doctor who saved him by tracking a speeder to the private clubhouse of Wang Lu's stepfather, Lei Yongxun. The newly appointed director of the Nirvana hospital, Lei is a prominent figure whose father is the director of Xia Moist Pharmaceuticals and a member of the Lei family of Thunder, which is allied with the Nan family. Xia Jiang confronts Lei about Wang Yi's abduction, calling the act out of order. Later, Lei himself is abducted by Sean, who attempts to interrogate the man about Wang Yi's location. The Jedi mimics the tactics of Xia Xi, exploiting the director's fear despite knowing that this was the way of the dark side. They travel to a warehouse in Yellow Sky district three, where they find Wang's corpse. Lei pleads that he did not order Wang's death and explained that high-level authorities had condemned the doctor after he discovered the secret of dark yellow blood five years ago—though dark yellow blood does not grant immortality, there were rumors that it had allowed a senior official to live for over two hundred years, and the Nirvana hospital under the Lei family's directorship used but never investigated its mystical properties. Lei insists that he has been framed for Wang's murder and runs to his speeder, but it explodes.

It sets a brutal lesson for Sean that his actions have consequences, even when merely pretending to be a bad person. Realizing that the explosion was caused by a missile, Sean suspects that it could have been the act of a mercenary. However, when he steps out of the warehouse, he finds a battle of blasterfire between corporation soldiers. Sean decides to reach the manager of the station to uncover the culprit of the chaos. Meanwhile, in an office in Dark Sky district one, Xia Jiang toys with Sean's lightsaber until he his suddenly confronted by Xia Xi, who boasts that he had arranged for Zhou Xiong's (周雄) death.

Zhou was Xia Jiang's superior officer and led corporation forces on Fire with brutal tactics, and Xia Xi brought up Zhou's betrayal of common soldiers over a decade ago at the behest of higher authorities that led to the deaths of many of Xia's friends, with only red apricot squad surviving; the survivors cut ties with the corporation, yet Xia Jiang lacked the courage to do so and remained in his position. Xia Jiang cursed Xia Xi for not only the murder but for making it seem as though Xia Jiang was responsible. Xia Xi further informed him that Lei Yongxun was dead and reminded his brother that the Security Bureau's loyalty education teaches that associating with rebellious elements is the greatest danger due to guilt by association. The agent thus urged his brother to dedicate his efforts in hunting down the wanted fugitive to prove his loyalty to the state apparatus.

The Padawan intends to reach Dark Sky's central jade building to confront the space station's manager about the chaos, suspecting Xia Xi's hand in it. Sean reaches the border between the decaying Sky Yellow and prosperous Dark Sky regions; the former is run by companies and gangs whereas the Security Bureau directly is overseeing the latter region, and the Sky Yellow forces are suddenly clearing citizens from the streets while the Dark Sky forces are reinforcing their armaments—aiming at the opposite district.

Chapters ‡

The following is a list of all 324 chapters, along with their titles and the dates in which they were published.^[1]

Development

《白银誓约》 was written in simplified Chinese by an author under the pseudonym 国王陛下 (His Majesty the King),^[1] with cover illustrations by Huang Hai under the pseudonym 艾儿天空.^[2] It was announced by the People's Republic of China's biggest online publishing publisher, China Literature—a subsidiary of the state-affiliated technology company Tencent that maintains the Shanghai-based Qidian web-novel platform—and Disney's China branch on behalf of Lucasfilm at a media event in Shanghai.^[17] The event was attended by various speakers, including the author, Lucasfilm's Vice President of Franchise Content and Strategy, James Waugh,^[4] and China Literature's CEO.^[18] China Literature posted a statement on the collaboration with DIsney via Tencent's WeChat platform on October 16, 2019, announcing the new Star Wars story "with Chinese characteristics" and China Literature's translation of forty existing Star Wars novels into Chinese, marking the first time for Star Wars e-books to be officially licensed in mainland China.^[19] The event was reported by online Chinese state media on that day^[18] and later by online Chinese media^[20] and the United States' Variety magazine on October 18. Recent Star Wars films had been underperforming in the Chinese market since audiences had little connection with the franchise, with the original films being released in the 1970s and 1980s when China was just recovering from the Cultural Revolution and had few Western imports. The stated aim of The Vow of Silver Dawn was to boost engagement with Star Wars in China in the lead up to the release of the film Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker in December of the same year.^[17]

The English title The Vow of Silver Dawn was confirmed by Matt Martin of the Lucasfilm Story Group when asked on Twitter in 2020.^[5] The Vow of Silver Dawn aimed to incorporate Chinese culture to tell an authentic Star Wars story that would resonate with teenagers. James Waugh also said in the web-novel's promotional video posted on Weibo that the story takes place toward the end of the pinnacle era of the Galactic Republic and the Jedi, around fifty years before the events of the 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace,^[4] which is set in 32 BBY, thereby placing the story around 82 BBY. However, the 2023 reference title Star Wars: Timelines changed the placement of The Vow of Silver Dawn to 200 BBY. Timelines also revealed some English names of the web-novel's characters and settings.^[7] The promotional video also features Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, Executive Vice President and General Manager Lynwen Brennan, and a brief introduction by Waugh to the Lucasfilm Story Group, who made sure that the story could align with the wider Star Wars mythology.^[4]

The first three chapters of The Vow of Silver Dawn were published on Qidian on December 17, 2020, with subsequent chapters being gradually published over the course of^[1] China's COVID-19 pandemic, which had started by November 2019.^[21] While the wider English-language Star Wars: The High Republic publishing initiative was originally scheduled to launch with The High Republic: Light of the Jedi on August 25, 2020,^[22] Lucasfilm announced on May 26 of that year that the project's launch was delayed to January, 2021 due to "general marketplace delays"^[23] in the wake of the now-global COVID-19 pandemic.^[21] Huang Hai unveiled his posters for The Vow of Silver Dawn on the day of its release in a social media post, hopeful that fans would find the story enjoyable and glad for Chinese input into the Star Wars franchise, demonstrating a feature of globalization despite "unfortunate" trends against globalization in the modern day.^[2] Huang also made a Star Wars poster featured on StarWars.com for Chinese New Year in 2021.^[24]

The Vow of Silver Dawn's final chapters were published on September 21, 2021,^[1] the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival.^[25] On the previous day, the official Star Wars account made a celebratory post for the festival on Weibo along with three illustrations. The illustrations star Sean, Luke Skywalker, and Din Djarin looking to the full moon, which features Mostima, Leia Organa, and Grogu respectively. The post explains that the galaxy's heroes are appreciating the Moon as with people on Earth and thinking of those they hold dear—in master-and-apprentice, sibling, and parent-child relationships—despite their physical distances.^[26] As of March 2024, the web-novel's webpage claims that it contains 863,000 words and has received 405,500 recommendations via the platform's recommendations system. An on-site award also indicates that an accumulation of 50,000 users adding the web-novel to their collection was achieved on January 11, 2021.^[1]

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Notes and references

External links

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