The Carillon Lips - THE SHAPE OF LOVE

The Carillon Lips — Volume IV: The Shape of Love

By Vienna Leary

Gu Zhi can bring order to an academy. Finding his place in a household proves rather more difficult.

His books are on the shelves. His clothes are in the inner rooms. His favourite cup is waiting. But when the household register requires a category, Gu Zhi calls himself a guest.

Bo Bailie disagrees. Shu pours tea. The space in the register remains blank.

What follows is a tender, often very funny story of three men learning how to build a life together. Affection must find room alongside responsibility, independence and the uncomfortable business of saying what one wants. Beyond their rooms, family expectations and official arrangements demand answers that none of them can make alone.

For Gu Zhi, accepting love means trusting that he can disagree, leave, return—and still belong.

Set within the richly connected world of The Carillon Lips, The Shape of Love explores queer love, chosen family and the daily negotiations that make a shared home possible. Its warmth lives in small things: three desks, changed plans, an open gate, and arguments over vegetables.

The volume also includes Another Year, a deeply moving continuation of Qiao Huan and Cangyi Heng’s story, as a quieter household brings difficult questions about memory, loss and their years together.

The fourth volume of The Carillon Lips, continuing from A Seat at the Table. Also available as part of the complete seven-volume collection.

Digital edition: one EPUB file. No physical book will be posted.