Li Qiqing, also known as The Bucket Rider (骑桶人), was an editor at Fantasy World, a pioneering fantasy magazine in China, and the former chief editor of Novoland Fantasy magazine. He is currently working on several novels set in the Novoland universe. Among them, Guixu (《归墟》), currently at over 100,000 words, focuses on the expedition of a crew to the East Sea, a previously unexplored territory of the imaginary world. According to historical texts, guixu is a bottomless pit in the eastern ocean to which all water flows.