Faraway Wanderers

**Faraway Wanderers** (天涯客; *Tiān Yá Kè*) is a Chinese danmei wuxia webnovel written by Priest. It serves as a sequel to Priest's previous novel, *Lord Seventh*, however, the two novels are independent.

The novel was originally published on October 7 2010 on JJWXC, with a total of 77 chapters and 4 extras (5 extras in the printed edition and Audio Drama). The novel has been officially published in Traditional Chinese and translated into Thai.

## Summary

Once one enters jianghu, they are reminded that the children of the young are old.

A tale about the former leader of a special organization served under royalty, now leaving his past life behind and unintentionally getting involved with the martial world.

The world is vast, where there are people, there is jianghu.

## Synopsis

After growing weary of a blood life, Zhou Zishu, leader of the Heaven’s Pane intelligence agency that answers directly to the Emperor, hammered the Septeye Nails of Three Autumns into himself. With only three years of a ruined life left in him, he left the Court, then went down to jianghu to tour famous mountains and lakes.

His former life of leisure and contentment, however, was swept up into a confusing jianghu war out of a momentary idea to accumulate virtue — he’s also being chased after and harassed by the beauty-loving Wen Kexing.

## Chapters

The novel on JJWXC (Locked) is 77 chapters and four extras (including the prologue). Those chapters are divided into four books. The physical Taiwan Edition of the novel has a fifth extra.

* **Prologue** - *Farewell to the Imperial Court*
* **Volume One** - *Wandering Jianghu, Carrying Wine as We Walk* (Ch.2-25)
* **Volume Two** - *Once You Stop Singing, I Step Onstage* (Ch.26-54)
* **Volume Three** - *In the End, They Are All Sewing Wedding Dresses for Others* (Ch.55-69)
* **Volume Four** - *Looking at the Final Scroll of Grace, Resentment, Affection, and Hatred* (Ch.70-77)
* **Extras** - (Ex.1-4)

**Note:** Due to the lack of an official English translation, all information written about the novel are from the following fan translations listed below:

1. sparklingwatertrans
2. wenbuxing
3. Chichi the Osprey

## Publication

The novel was originally published as a webnovel on JJWXC from October 7 2010 to January 12 2011. The first printed version of Faraway Wanderers was published in Taiwan by Yun Cang Books, the first volume on 2 February 2014 and the second volume on 12 March 2014, it was printed in Traditional Chinese and included a fifth extra that was not available on JJWXC.

Another printed version was published in Thai by SENSE BOOK on December 2020. On September 2021, The novel was locked on JJWXC for "further editing" due to censorship issues. English translations, as well as any translation besides Thai and Traditional Chinese, are all unofficial.

## Adaptations

The Audio Drama was officiated and started airing on January 2021 on MissEvans. This adaption is the most true to the original text, with a running time of two seasons, covering all chapters and the extras.

The Live-Action Adaption, renamed Word of Honor, started airing on February 2021. *Word of Honor* is loosely based on the novel and derives from the plot and the characterisations. With a running time of 36 episodes plus a special short episode that is exclusively available on Viki and Youtube behind paywall.

## Illustrators

### Thai Edition

* Yuyu Huadiao (weibo)

## Gallery

**Taiwan Edition**
Volume 1Volume 2
**Thai Edition**

Special Edition BoxVolume 1Volume 2Artwork
**Audio Book**

Audio Book

## Trivia

* *Faraway Wanderers* was already being written as *Lord Seventh* was still updating, showing that Priest already had plans for Zhou Zishu.
* The second volume of the Thai Edition is heavily inspired by the Taiwan Edition, as it carries the same design, minus Wen Kexing's white hair.
* At the time of the novel's publication, the cover on JJWXC was a drawing by ENO (何何舞) from an original artbook "The Marquee Moon". At some time in 2015-2016, it was changed to the JJWXC default cover.

## References

1. ↑ Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20210812234445/www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=912073
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/zhouducuffed/status/1443794617745424385?s=20&t=EXOOj6ojhs5NZ9xPUyjPMw