Mu Su Li
Seven Seas Entertainment
18 November 2025
340
Paperback
Danmei/Fantasy BL
Bought Copy
The Banquet of the Winding Wine ends with one nobleman falling asleep warm in his bed. When he wakes, he’s shackled as a prisoner in the Northern Domain of Tealspire, feared by all as an archfiend! However, he’s not the only one who’s just woken up.
Floating on the Boundless Sea is an impenetrable prison thirty-three stories tall where the damned rot and demons perish: the Northern Domain of Tealspire. It’s at the very top of the spire that Wu Xingxue has just awakened on a dead tree in the middle of a deep, blue lake, rinsing strange blood off his hands. Nearby, he hears the sound of metal clanging. Not only is he disoriented after a night of revelry and ambrosia, but he’s now an archfiend shackled in chains?! Clearly, he is no longer living a life of luxury as a nobleman in Magpie Haven.
Yet it’s not all bad news for this bewildered demon. With a stroke of luck, his awakening rouses the legendary Tianxiu Immortal, Xiao Fuxuan—a mysterious being who has the power to levy justice, all while bearing the word “absolution” upon his neck. It’s in the nick of time too, as they must team up to escape as Tealspire crumbles around them.
Still, the mysteries don’t stop there. The two must uncover why Tealspire collapsed, what happened to Wu Xingxue’s former life in Magpie Haven, how he woke up as archfiend, and just who the Tianxiu Immortal, Xiao Fuxuan, really is.
I had no prior knowledge of Three Hundred Years of Longing as I went into this first volume. Out of the new danmei licenses, the blurb of this one had caught my interest, so I decided to give it a try. Overall, it looks promising. Xiao Fuxuan and Wu Xingxue both came across as intriguing characters about whom I was keen to learn more. The action and storyline, too, were fun and well paced, holding my attention throughout. I will definitely continue this series as I keen to see how things will play out. As always with these danmei releases, the book contained some lovely illustrations to accompany the prose. Like I have done with other danmei, I will offer a final verdict on the series once I reach the last volume, but I am giving this opening volume 4.5 stars as it was a very promising start.
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