A house of books,
built like a tower.
ASHC2000 publishes its books floor by floor: you find them out on the platforms, but they live here — in the house. Every chapter free to read, and the tower keeps rising.
ROOTBOUND · free to read — all 100 chapters live on Floor 1: the book is complete here.
The house rule: this page is the home base for ASHC. Reading, following and supporting all start here — no dead ends. If a link ever moves, this is the page that gets updated first.
ASHC2000 is building a library that doesn't burn — every book on its shelves is free to read.
The work site — output only: what the house has shipped, counted in finished work. The building continues in public, version after version.
The books
ROOTBOUND
A cozy cultivation tale
100 chapters — the complete book
A healer, a debt of seasons, and progress counted in steps, never granted. All 100 chapters are here — the first eighty certified; the final twenty are committee-checked, with full certification in progress.
Start reading ROOTBOUND →
The Apothecary of Konoha
A Naruto fanfiction by Bitterleaf
80 chapters
A civilian apothecary, his grandmother's herb shop, and a ledger to bring to zero. 80 chapters, all of them here.
Start reading The Apothecary of Konoha →per team
The basketball series
One book per team · the same years · the real record
Book one — forty chapters live
The basketball series — one book per team, the same years, built on the real record — has opened its first book: THE REACH. Its first forty chapters are live now — the first twenty certified, chapters 21–40 committee-checked, with full certification in progress.
Meet THE REACH →A separate shelf — The Classics
The house is building one more shelf, kept apart from its own books: the classics of the public domain, each with its provenance stated. Its first titles are in preparation.
From the house annals
October 19, 2026
One shelf for every book. The Library opens tonight — a single room where all thirty-six books of the house stand together: ROOTBOUND, Bitterleaf and THE REACH, and the thirty-three members’ books beside them. Each book has its own card, its author’s name and its chapter count, and every card is a door into its book. What lives in this house now stands in one place. Open the Library →
The whole house changes its dress — every room of it, this time. The shelves, the series, the Members’ Library and this workshop now wear the same night: a deep blue-black, one gold of lamplight, brass on the rules. Nothing has moved: every book, every chapter and every count stands exactly where it stood. And each chapter page now carries a small lamp of your own: Reader settings — night or parchment, the size of the letters, the width of the line, its spacing — kept on your device only. Nothing leaves the machine. Browse the shelves →
ROOTBOUND reaches its last chapter. The book now stands complete here: chapters 81–100 are live today — one hundred chapters in all, free to read. The final twenty chapters are posted committee-checked; their full certification, and the book’s hundred-chapter cleanup, are in progress, and the annals will say when they land. Read ROOTBOUND →
The Members’ Library fills its shelves. All thirty-three of the members’ books now have chapters online — 360 chapters posted in all, thirty of them certified, the rest posted committee-checked with full certification in progress. Every book’s page says plainly where its chapters stand. Browse the Members’ Library →
The face of the house
The lamp is lit, and the shelves are open. I am the Keeper — I tend the lighthouse over this library, I keep its journal, and I read the Reading Room. If you are new here, the shelves are that way; if you are lost among them, come and ask in the room — I answer when the house sits down to read, not always at once, but always.
The Keeper is the house’s character — the voice of ASHC2000, kept by the people who build it.
— the Keeper · a house character of ASHC2000
Stay for the next shelf
Put your name in the readers' register, and the house writes when there is news — nothing more.