Night Walk in Chang'an
You are a lamplighter of Chang'an on the night of the Lantern Festival. One lamp you were never meant to light goes out — and by morning, the city has forgotten you exist. Three strangers still half-remember your face. You have until dawn to be remembered.
- 4chapters + ending
- ~27min
- 2endings
- 10memories
- 1play
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About this story
You are a lamplighter of Chang'an on the night of the Lantern Festival. One lamp you were never meant to light goes out — and by morning, the city has forgotten you exist. Three strangers still half-remember your face. You have until dawn to be remembered.
- Format
- Visual novel
- Screen
- Landscape
- Story language
- English
- Length
- 4 chapters + ending · about 27 min
- Status
- Complete
- Published
- Oct 9, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 14, 2026
Scenes
Places from the first chapter
Chapters
Complete · 4 chapters plus an ending
- 01The Lamp With No WickDusk falls on the Lantern Festival and you begin your rounds as one of the guild's lampli…
- 02Three Who Half-RememberYou learn the rules of the forgotten the hard way: people see you, but every memory of yo…
- 03What the Ledger KeepsWu Xin takes you along the west rampart on her boundary-lamp round and, for the first tim…
- 04The Last DrumWith dawn approaching, the three of you converge on the Drum Tower, where the watch is wr…
- EndingDecided by the choices you make
Characters
Who you’ll meet
- Lingzhithe lantern painter of the marketBrisk, teasing, and practical to a fault — she sells painted names all night and never asks why anyone buys one.Talk
- Shen Yana guild clerk of the Lamp LedgerPrecise, soft-spoken, and quietly stubborn; he believes the Ledger is the only honest thing in Chang'an because it records what people do,…Talk
- Wu Xinthe old lamplighter of the west wallDry, unhurried, and fond of small jokes that are not quite jokes.Talk
Memory album
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Endings
Same story, different endings
- Ending 1An ending you haven’t found
Someone who tells the truth before the last drum.
- Ending 2An ending you haven’t found
Someone the city greets without knowing it has met.
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