Definition
A loaded term. The Zuowandao (“Way of Sitting in Forgetfulness”) is a cult of liars who twist reality. By using their methods to cheer up his mother, Li Huowang weaponizes his trauma for a kind act.
Zuowandao
A loaded term. The Zuowandao (“Way of Sitting in Forgetfulness”) is a cult of liars who twist reality. By using their methods to cheer up his mother, Li Huowang weaponizes his trauma for a kind act.
Story context
Buckle up, fellow Daoists, because Chapter 468 is one of those rare, gut-punching breathers where the horror isn’t teeth and tentacles—it’s a mother’s forced smile. Li Huowang shuttles back to White Tower Psychiatric Hospital for a single meal with Sun Xiaoqin, and the whole scene is a masterclass in mundane dread. He uses cheap mental tricks to make her happy, promises her a future of video games and skydiving, and all the while, his brain is coldly calculating opportunity costs. Then he blinks back to the Dao-Twisted World, his vision restored, and he has to verbally wrestle his own daughter into believing he just ate *egg custard*, not pocket-lint. It’s quiet, it’s domestic, and it’s devastating.
Why it matters
This chapter is a trap. It feels gentle, even sweet, but it’s actually a catalog of Li Huowang’s erosion. Pay close attention to the speed of his thoughts: he spots his mother’s fake smile, files it as a data point, and immediately rejects the *human* solution (spending time with her) for the *efficient* one (a quick lie). That is not the logic of a healer. That is the logic of a man who has learned to treat love as a variable to be optimized. Also, the detail about his eyes recovering is not a happy ending—it is the removal of a vulnerability, which in this world, is usually the signal for something worse to come.
Quick facts
Source novel
Dao Gui Yi Xian
First appearance
The Egg Custard Trick
Chapter references
1
Type hints
Li Huowang, Sun Xiaoqin, White Tower Psychiatric Hospital
Guide tags
psychological horror, domestic dread, mother-son bond
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