Cang Yue (沧月), formerly known as Wang Yang (王洋), is a Chinese contemporary fantasy writer born in Taizhou in 1979. She started publishing her novels online in 2001. She then first became famous as a martial arts novelist before turning to the field of fantasy. In 2002, she began to write articles for best-selling magazines. In the past ten years, she has published more than 20 kinds of works, and the cumulative sales volume of her works has reached 10,000,000 copies. Her debut series, Listening Snow Tower (听雪楼, Ting Xue Lou), was adapted into a television series of the same name in 2017. Apart from her work as a writer, she is also an architect and designer.