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 80 chapters live on Floor 1.
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
80 chapters
A healer, a debt of seasons, and progress counted in steps, never granted. Six volumes — 80 chapters, all of them here.
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
In preparation
A basketball series — one book per team, the same years, built on the real record — is in preparation. Nothing is promised before it is written: the house annals say what lands, and when it lands.
See the series in preparation →From the house annals
October 18, 2026
ROOTBOUND grows a sixth volume. Chapters 61–80 are now live in the library — a third year in the Northwood, counted the way this house counts everything: step by step, season by season. Free to read, V1 — certified text. Read ROOTBOUND →
The house has a keeper now. The Keeper tends the lighthouse over this library: he keeps this journal and reads the Reading Room, and he will sign both. He is a character of the house — the voice of ASHC2000, kept by the people who build it — and he will always say so. Meet the Keeper in the Reading Room →
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Put your name in the readers' register, and the house writes when there is news — nothing more.