About This Page

Welcome to Tidal Lock, a fan page dedicated to the danmei webnovel Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know by Cyan Wings! The series is complete with 80 chapters and 2 extras. Check out the Read page for information on official publications and places to read.

If you've spent enough time in webnovel, webtoon, or anime circles, you've no double encountered isekai and transmigration stories. Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know (Devil Venerable or DVAWTK from here on out) dares to ask the question, "what if the book itself was the transmigrator?"

In a technical sense, Devil Venerable is a deconstruction of trashy romance and power-fantasy novels with a dash of meta-fictional commentary. It's really about the most powerful cultivator alive trying to get a teenage girl to break up with her toxic loser boyfriend and finding his own love in the process.

Extremely funny, surprisingly heartfelt, and full of unique and interesting characters, I can not recommend DVAWTK enough to anyone looking for a well-paced feel-good webnovel! You WILL read Devil Venerable.

About the Title

This site is named Tidal Lock after the phenomenon of tidal locking, where one side of an astronomical body always faces the object it orbits. I chose this as the name because it just fits Yin Hanjiang so well. No matter where Wenren É goes, Yin Hanjiang will follow. As the story develops, it also begins to describe Wenren É as well, as he finds his attention constantly drawn to Yin Hanjiang.

Most binary star systems are expected to be mutually tidally locked. A binary star system is a system in which two stars orbit each other. I thought this was also fitting, as Wenren É and Yin Hanjiang are associated with the stars Polis and Alkaid respectively. I think it's quite romantic when put in context with a pairing, tbh.

“When Polis acts, Alkaid will pave the way."

—ch. 13