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Remnants of Filth: Yuwu (Novel) #6
Remnants of Filth: Yuwu (Novel) Vol. 6
DARK BEFORE THE DAWN
As Gu Mang's mind continues to deteriorate, he and Mo Xi set out for the prefecture of Lin'an, hoping to find a legendary sage with the ability to summon Gu Mang's missing souls. Chances of success are vanishingly small, but Mo Xi is unwilling to give up any hope of restoring his beloved to health.
Upon arrival, however, Mo Xi and Gu Mang find no such fabled sage, but a familiar face--Murong Chuyi, who has arrived with the rest of the Yue Clan, including Yue Chenqing and the estranged Jiang Yexue, to complete a perilous blood ritual. What begins as a chance encounter soon turns deadly as Mo Xi stumbles across one of the clan's darkest and most deeply buried secrets.
As Gu Mang's mind continues to deteriorate, he and Mo Xi set out for the prefecture of Lin'an, hoping to find a legendary sage with the ability to summon Gu Mang's missing souls. Chances of success are vanishingly small, but Mo Xi is unwilling to give up any hope of restoring his beloved to health.
Upon arrival, however, Mo Xi and Gu Mang find no such fabled sage, but a familiar face--Murong Chuyi, who has arrived with the rest of the Yue Clan, including Yue Chenqing and the estranged Jiang Yexue, to complete a perilous blood ritual. What begins as a chance encounter soon turns deadly as Mo Xi stumbles across one of the clan's darkest and most deeply buried secrets.
348 pages, Paperback
Published February 4, 2025
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September 3, 2025
i think meatbun has an issue with anyone named chu
February 5, 2025
Seven Seas has really frustrated me with the publication of this novel (and a few others TBH). This volume ends on chap 189 and according to Novel Updates there are 196 chapters and 18 extras. So the last volume will be 7 chapters and 18 extras 😡. The way this one ended is criminal. As short as some of the previous books were, IMO this series easily could have been five volumes.
Despite my complaints about Seven Seas, I am still so in love with this story and the characters.
Maybe spoilers below (no names mentioned):
I'm still shaken by the betrayal that I did not see coming. To have so much hope and then have everything snatched away.
Meatbun really hurt me with a death of a certain character. And then with the ending being so abrupt. I am desperate enough to MTL the last seven chapters.
Definitely spoilers below:
There is no 🌶️ in this book which is fine but after so much pain and suffering, I wanted more intimate moments between them. I needed more MX and GM, did not get it, and that ending just left me feeling empty. Sigh.
This is where I feel like the way SS divides and publishes the novel really negatively impacts the reading experience.
Despite my complaints about Seven Seas, I am still so in love with this story and the characters.
Maybe spoilers below (no names mentioned):
I'm still shaken by the betrayal that I did not see coming. To have so much hope and then have everything snatched away.
Meatbun really hurt me with a death of a certain character. And then with the ending being so abrupt. I am desperate enough to MTL the last seven chapters.
Definitely spoilers below:
There is no 🌶️ in this book which is fine but after so much pain and suffering, I wanted more intimate moments between them. I needed more MX and GM, did not get it, and that ending just left me feeling empty. Sigh.
This is where I feel like the way SS divides and publishes the novel really negatively impacts the reading experience.
November 11, 2025
how meatbun feels whenever she writes a character even slightly related to someone named chu knowing they’re abt to have the worst fate known to mankind, a life filled with pure agony, a doomed relationship and also 1% chance of survival.
February 21, 2025
What an intoxicating dose of ephemera!
How am I supposed to endure the wait for Volume 7? 😭😭
I hate SS for removing chapters from this volume just to make another one!
They’ve left us tangled in the mystery of Beguna—still within reach of prediction, yet everything is in chaos.
Poor Moxi is left alone now.
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How am I supposed to endure the wait for Volume 7? 😭😭
I hate SS for removing chapters from this volume just to make another one!
They’ve left us tangled in the mystery of Beguna—still within reach of prediction, yet everything is in chaos.
Poor Moxi is left alone now.
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May 27, 2025
I didn’t like the first half of this volume, where some revelations unfold in an almost comical way, with cartoonish villains holding a monologue for several chapters, basically to give us a flashback of their whole lives. It didn’t help that their evilness wasn’t a surprise for me at all.
The last half is where the heart of the book is. I was cheering our Gu Mang’s return to the battlefield, with Mo Xi on his side—only to see them thrown into another gut wrenching tragedy!
Then he reached out to loop his arms around Mo Xi’s shoulders, gathering him into a bruising embrace—
Contained within the circle of those arms were too many things to name: love, intimacy, comfort, encouragement…all the brilliant faith Gu Mang had afforded Mo Xi in the past. The press of their bodies felt so natural, as if those miserable and hopeless years of spying and treachery had never come between them.
My poor heart really can’t take anymore. I’m so ready for their HEA, and after all the things they’ve been through, it’s better be a really, really good one, Meatbun!!!
The last half is where the heart of the book is. I was cheering our Gu Mang’s return to the battlefield, with Mo Xi on his side—only to see them thrown into another gut wrenching tragedy!
Then he reached out to loop his arms around Mo Xi’s shoulders, gathering him into a bruising embrace—
Contained within the circle of those arms were too many things to name: love, intimacy, comfort, encouragement…all the brilliant faith Gu Mang had afforded Mo Xi in the past. The press of their bodies felt so natural, as if those miserable and hopeless years of spying and treachery had never come between them.
My poor heart really can’t take anymore. I’m so ready for their HEA, and after all the things they’ve been through, it’s better be a really, really good one, Meatbun!!!
March 15, 2025
11/28/24
Chuyi my beloved...
Ready to get my heart broken all over again
11/11/24
(spoilers for new readers)
Chuyi my beloved...
Ready to get my heart broken all over again
11/11/24
(spoilers for new readers)
April 25, 2025
Damn, that betrayal was brutal did not expect it at all.
We need that last volume asap, I need Mo Xi and Gu Mang to have a happy ending.
We need that last volume asap, I need Mo Xi and Gu Mang to have a happy ending.
March 1, 2025
the parallels with erha PEAKED in this volume
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May 9, 2025 according to all we know, a soul dispersed should fly into the vast world of the nine provinces; it should be practically impossible to track down. but when we found you in the rubble of the golden terrace, it was hovering by your side. as if it retained some wisp of awareness, and was guarding you within the debris.
hi, so i love ximang. i’m already pretty sure yuwu is making my list of all-time favourites but i will wait till i read the last volume, i guess!
but even though i love yuwu, i was a little underwhelmed by this volume. the whole plot with jiang yexue and murong chuyi was a little bleh for me. jiang yexue was just so fucking annoying and that whole plotline didn’t move me at all. a lot of stuff got revealed right after each other and i don’t know, i wasn’t really a fan? i would rather it was given slowly or over the entire novel, not eighty million things in a couple of chapters. even the final battle in this didn’t move that much - i’m a huge fan of stuff like that, but i wasn’t impressed with the way everything was executed and written.
anyways, i ended up liking murong lian more in this book. i always will love mo xi and gu mang as well. nearly teared up when that rallying of the northern frontier army happened. ALSO, GU MANG JUST WANTS A FAMILY. PLEASE. PLEASE. THAT STUFF WHERE HE WAITING FOR ahem. BROKE ME.
spoiler quote but oh my days, how this moved me…
hi, so i love ximang. i’m already pretty sure yuwu is making my list of all-time favourites but i will wait till i read the last volume, i guess!
but even though i love yuwu, i was a little underwhelmed by this volume. the whole plot with jiang yexue and murong chuyi was a little bleh for me. jiang yexue was just so fucking annoying and that whole plotline didn’t move me at all. a lot of stuff got revealed right after each other and i don’t know, i wasn’t really a fan? i would rather it was given slowly or over the entire novel, not eighty million things in a couple of chapters. even the final battle in this didn’t move that much - i’m a huge fan of stuff like that, but i wasn’t impressed with the way everything was executed and written.
anyways, i ended up liking murong lian more in this book. i always will love mo xi and gu mang as well. nearly teared up when that rallying of the northern frontier army happened. ALSO, GU MANG JUST WANTS A FAMILY. PLEASE. PLEASE. THAT STUFF WHERE HE WAITING FOR ahem. BROKE ME.
spoiler quote but oh my days, how this moved me…
June 16, 2025
“I’ll take you home, I’ll bring you ashore, not because this piece of land is great, but because I’ve always believed that good will replace the bad and the new will replace the old, just as the black of night will always retreat before the light of dawn. After all, there are too many seeds of hope in the world. I wish for all of them to blossom into flowers. Even if they’re no more than tiny insignificant blooms.”
Meatbun really knows how to rip your heart out. This volume is just pain layered on more pain, and it’s almost impossible to get through without stopping to take a breath (or cry). The way survivor’s guilt is explored here hits so hard—it’s that awful feeling of relief that someone else isn’t suffering anymore, but now you’re the one carrying all of it. And just when you think you’ve processed one heartbreaking moment, the story throws another at you. There are so many scenes that feel like a punch to the gut, making you really sit with the weight of everything these characters have been through.
The political drama is intense, and the characters feel more morally gray than ever. The emperor gave me such mixed feelings—I kept going back and forth between thinking he was completely ruthless and wondering if maybe, just maybe, there was more to him. The villains in this volume are so well-written it actually hurts. Seeing how they were shaped by their suffering makes it impossible not to feel for them. Even when they make awful choices, you can understand why. And then there’s the other villain—the one who’s just so cunning and heartless it makes your blood boil.
Some scenes in this book just wrecked me. There’s one with the three generals that made me full-on ugly cry—it was so powerful and emotional that I had to just sit with it for a while. The battles, the sacrifices, the sheer amount of loss in this volume are all brutal but beautifully done. And of course, Meatbun being Meatbun, there’s no letting up—just more history, more heartbreak, and the setup for what’s going to be an absolutely gut-wrenching final book.
Date Read: 2025.03.03
Meatbun really knows how to rip your heart out. This volume is just pain layered on more pain, and it’s almost impossible to get through without stopping to take a breath (or cry). The way survivor’s guilt is explored here hits so hard—it’s that awful feeling of relief that someone else isn’t suffering anymore, but now you’re the one carrying all of it. And just when you think you’ve processed one heartbreaking moment, the story throws another at you. There are so many scenes that feel like a punch to the gut, making you really sit with the weight of everything these characters have been through.
The political drama is intense, and the characters feel more morally gray than ever. The emperor gave me such mixed feelings—I kept going back and forth between thinking he was completely ruthless and wondering if maybe, just maybe, there was more to him. The villains in this volume are so well-written it actually hurts. Seeing how they were shaped by their suffering makes it impossible not to feel for them. Even when they make awful choices, you can understand why. And then there’s the other villain—the one who’s just so cunning and heartless it makes your blood boil.
Some scenes in this book just wrecked me. There’s one with the three generals that made me full-on ugly cry—it was so powerful and emotional that I had to just sit with it for a while. The battles, the sacrifices, the sheer amount of loss in this volume are all brutal but beautifully done. And of course, Meatbun being Meatbun, there’s no letting up—just more history, more heartbreak, and the setup for what’s going to be an absolutely gut-wrenching final book.
Date Read: 2025.03.03
June 21, 2025
Knocking a star off of this volume because it was 80% villainous monologue and the last few chapters made me want to scratch my own eyes out in frustration. Both Gu Mang and Mo Xi should ascend as gods and be left alone to frolic in the clouds with Fandou for the rest of eternity. The last volume better be the happiest ending to ever end or I will never read anything else ever again.
December 20, 2025
at this point I’m convinced the entire chu lineage just consists of traumatised omegas and babygirls (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶) .ᐟ.ᐟ
April 6, 2025
WHYYYYY Seven Seas I HOPE YOU DROWN I POOL OF SADNESS
February 7, 2025
I’ll take you home, I’ll bring you ashore, not because this piece of land is great, but because I’ve always believed that good will replace the bad and the new will replace the old, just as the black of night will always retreat before the light of dawn. After all, there are too many seeds of hope in the world.
I wish for all of them to blossom into flowers. Even if they’re no more than tiny insignificant blooms.
….Ten thousand leagues of the nation bought with the blood of ten thousand souls. Today… I’ve finally brought you home. I can finally… return to your midst.
in yuwu, we grieve for some of these characters and all they could’ve become before meeting their terrible fates :’)
p.s. reading this not long after i read vol.7 of 2ha cost me a lot of emotional damage, i must say….the threads that tie these two stories together really shined.
I wish for all of them to blossom into flowers. Even if they’re no more than tiny insignificant blooms.
….Ten thousand leagues of the nation bought with the blood of ten thousand souls. Today… I’ve finally brought you home. I can finally… return to your midst.
in yuwu, we grieve for some of these characters and all they could’ve become before meeting their terrible fates :’)
p.s. reading this not long after i read vol.7 of 2ha cost me a lot of emotional damage, i must say….the threads that tie these two stories together really shined.
November 17, 2025
I'm fine I say as I cling to my straitjacket and stare at the white padded wall
May 23, 2025
I'm giving this a 5🌟 with the preface that I don't think this book was a 5🌟 but its a part of a series that it gonna be a 5🌟 read for me. I just think that 7seas did a really weird job at cutting off it's scenes into volumes for this particular book so this book just felt a little incomplete. there was aloooooot of villian monologing going on in this LMAOOO and not enough time with our main characters. this isn't a big deal to me because ive been binging the series and book 7 is already out so I'll start it today anyway, but for those who had to wait I'm sure this book was a little bit annoying to be left off on. much love onto book 7
June 16, 2025
4 stars. Ah, I see we've reached the batshit-crazy climactic sequence of this action-oriented damnei novel.
December 16, 2025
Gu Mang was not his stain, but the light in his heart that had never gone out.
I’ve seen people say the author was rushed into finishing this and you can definitely tell with this volume BUT I love this series so much, I’m willing to overlook it because the REVEALS!! This is basically Mo Xi finding out that he knows absolutely nothing.
Also the Chu family 😭💔
July 8, 2025
Murong Chuyi (cover center) and Murong Lian two of my favorite side characters in this series. Chuyi and his grumpy butt. Lian and his better-than-you aloofness. Yue Chenqing (cover left) also comes into his own in this novel.
This was like being hit by the board side of a barn. Everything just exploded. All the hidden secrets. So many secrets… Things I couldn’t even have imagined. Just wow. My minds been going 100mph from start to finish. I’m upset this volume is so short but at the same time my mind is thankful because it was power keg!
*beautiful two page illustration.
This was like being hit by the board side of a barn. Everything just exploded. All the hidden secrets. So many secrets… Things I couldn’t even have imagined. Just wow. My minds been going 100mph from start to finish. I’m upset this volume is so short but at the same time my mind is thankful because it was power keg!
*beautiful two page illustration.
July 10, 2025
You think you have family drama? It is probably relatively tame compared to the Murong clan 😵💫
Also remember folks, don't turn your love and lust into obsession and dangerous possessiveness. Poor
Also remember folks, don't turn your love and lust into obsession and dangerous possessiveness. Poor
May 28, 2025
3.75 ⭐️ I wasn’t the biggest fan of this volume. There were too many revelations without any foreshadowing (so many things came out of nowhere) - but overall it was still an enjoyable read
February 13, 2025
These books always make me cry 🥲
February 12, 2025
"After Gu Mang lost his life, the soldiers of Chonghua thought Mo Xi would go mad. They thought he’d collapse, that he’d self-destruct, that he’d want to die from heartbreak. But he hadn’t."
non so come partire per fare questa recensione, credo sia uno dei romanzi che più mi hanno fatta piangere recentemente. yuwu è una storia così delicata, ma allo stesso tempo potentemente drammatica che non saprei nemmeno come descriverla. i plot twist sono sempre perfetti, nei tempi giusti, e che sconvolgono il lettore in tutto e per tutto. sapere che Jiang Yexue in realtà era un pericoloso manipolatore, che, per amore (non corrisposto) ha rovinato la vita ad un'altra persona privandola della sua libertà è stato un colpo al cuore; Murong Chuyi meritava il mondo e oltre, la sua gentilezza, nonostante non fosse mai stata espressa a parole, era lì, tangibile, ma purtroppo Yue Chenqing ha dovuto pagare a caro prezzo questa "rivelazione" dello zio che amava tanto (e che ricambiava questo affetto!), è dovuto crescere in fretta e dopo la morte di tutto il clan Yue, alla fine del romanzo sembrava totalmente una persona diversa, questa sì che è una vera crescita del personaggio.
tutto ciò che riguarda l'Imperatore, i suoi schemi, le sue motivazioni e la sua personalità sono venute fuori, a galla, e sono state anche queste nozioni particolarmente shoccanti da apprendere. ho adorato il duo Murong Lian e Mengze e mi è piaciuto come A-Lian abbia accettato Gu Mang come suo fratello, nonostante la sua personalità e la sua lingua più che tagliente, ha un lato davvero dolce e protettivo!! <3
e ovviamente.. Mo Xi e Gu Mang. si sono persi e ritrovati tantissime volte, e quando sembrava che finalmente Gu Mang fosse tornato se stesso, pronto per vivere la vita che aveva sempre sognato con Mo Xi.. si è sacrificato per il bene di tutta Chonghua. che dolore.. che tristezza. davvero, è così doloroso che ci si può mettere nei panni di Mo Xi senza problemi.. spero che nel prossimo volume avremo un happy ending perché potrei avere un mental breakdown se non fosse così 😭
altre considerazioni sparse: la scrittura di meatbun in yuwu è.. pazzesca. trovo che sia davvero incisiva. perfetta. btw mi sono sentita quasi un genio quando ho capito le reference ad erha lol 🫶🏻
5⭐️ super mega iper piene solo perché non posso metterne di più 😭😭
non so come partire per fare questa recensione, credo sia uno dei romanzi che più mi hanno fatta piangere recentemente. yuwu è una storia così delicata, ma allo stesso tempo potentemente drammatica che non saprei nemmeno come descriverla. i plot twist sono sempre perfetti, nei tempi giusti, e che sconvolgono il lettore in tutto e per tutto. sapere che Jiang Yexue in realtà era un pericoloso manipolatore, che, per amore (non corrisposto) ha rovinato la vita ad un'altra persona privandola della sua libertà è stato un colpo al cuore; Murong Chuyi meritava il mondo e oltre, la sua gentilezza, nonostante non fosse mai stata espressa a parole, era lì, tangibile, ma purtroppo Yue Chenqing ha dovuto pagare a caro prezzo questa "rivelazione" dello zio che amava tanto (e che ricambiava questo affetto!), è dovuto crescere in fretta e dopo la morte di tutto il clan Yue, alla fine del romanzo sembrava totalmente una persona diversa, questa sì che è una vera crescita del personaggio.
tutto ciò che riguarda l'Imperatore, i suoi schemi, le sue motivazioni e la sua personalità sono venute fuori, a galla, e sono state anche queste nozioni particolarmente shoccanti da apprendere. ho adorato il duo Murong Lian e Mengze e mi è piaciuto come A-Lian abbia accettato Gu Mang come suo fratello, nonostante la sua personalità e la sua lingua più che tagliente, ha un lato davvero dolce e protettivo!! <3
e ovviamente.. Mo Xi e Gu Mang. si sono persi e ritrovati tantissime volte, e quando sembrava che finalmente Gu Mang fosse tornato se stesso, pronto per vivere la vita che aveva sempre sognato con Mo Xi.. si è sacrificato per il bene di tutta Chonghua. che dolore.. che tristezza. davvero, è così doloroso che ci si può mettere nei panni di Mo Xi senza problemi.. spero che nel prossimo volume avremo un happy ending perché potrei avere un mental breakdown se non fosse così 😭
altre considerazioni sparse: la scrittura di meatbun in yuwu è.. pazzesca. trovo che sia davvero incisiva. perfetta. btw mi sono sentita quasi un genio quando ho capito le reference ad erha lol 🫶🏻
5⭐️ super mega iper piene solo perché non posso metterne di più 😭😭
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September 16, 2025
“He’d never been Greed, Wrath, or Ignorance; he was Virtue, Mind, and Wisdom. The gentlest, most tolerant person, who endured everything and kept his conscience clear even when forced to desperate straits…That was his fourth uncle, Murong Chuyi.”
my baby deserves a family, home and warm fire not that lonely ending 💔
“The Flame Emperor’s sacred tree…The first tree in the human world, the king of all trees?”
AYO MY WANNNNNNNING
my baby deserves a family, home and warm fire not that lonely ending 💔
“The Flame Emperor’s sacred tree…The first tree in the human world, the king of all trees?”
AYO MY WANNNNNNNING
May 26, 2025
It’s so hard to review these books without giving it all away!
But this is the series that just keeps taking and taking from us. Jiang Yexue… really?! I did not see that coming. Murong Chuyi 😭and Poor Gu Mang, once again something he wants snatched from him. Mo Xi, how many times must he lose Gu Mang?!
Honestly, I don’t think my little heart can take much more of this! Onto book 7, and it had better end well 😂
But this is the series that just keeps taking and taking from us. Jiang Yexue… really?! I did not see that coming. Murong Chuyi 😭and Poor Gu Mang, once again something he wants snatched from him. Mo Xi, how many times must he lose Gu Mang?!
Honestly, I don’t think my little heart can take much more of this! Onto book 7, and it had better end well 😂
February 11, 2025
THIS is the volume i was waiting for. Murong Chuyi... at least Yue Chenqing knows, but Gu Mang doesn't. i know what comes next but god it still hurts. Gu Mang and Mo Xi on the boat on the cover though...
February 20, 2025
This volume is a quick read with a lot going on. Feels a little crammed with exposition but ultimately good to get the major story beats out before the final volume. Still enjoying it can't wait for the end!
October 11, 2025
Let's get to the final battle yesssssss
July 15, 2025
3.5 ⭐ rounded down because this series could've been published as 5 novels instead of 7.
Honestly I think the plot could've and should've been tightened a bit. It felt like they were approaching the main conflict several books ago and each one has been a trick before leading to the real final conflict which is turning the pacing/plot of this story into an extremely convoluted and confusing mess. Also I'm not sure how many "deaths" we're supposed to take seriously anymore. It's taking away the emotional impact.
Honestly I think the plot could've and should've been tightened a bit. It felt like they were approaching the main conflict several books ago and each one has been a trick before leading to the real final conflict which is turning the pacing/plot of this story into an extremely convoluted and confusing mess. Also I'm not sure how many "deaths" we're supposed to take seriously anymore. It's taking away the emotional impact.
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