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
Book one — twenty 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 twenty chapters are live now, certified text.
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
THE REACH opens its first twenty chapters. Book One of the basketball series now stands at twenty certified chapters — the pilot, ‘Draft Night’, and the nineteen chapters behind it — free to read. The book is not finished; the annals will say when more of it lands. Read THE REACH →
The Members’ Library posts its first chapters. Three of the thirty-three books open today: Direction by Ariane Helm, Building Worlds by Séverin Cosme and Writing the Chapters by Odile Encre — five chapters each, fifteen in all, every one of them through the house’s full reading chain before it reached the shelf. The other thirty books say plainly where they stand: no chapter certified yet. 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.