
Frostblade Song
by Suxiqing
About This Novel
In the heyday of the Chengyuan Dynasty, Shen Kuoyun, a young man from Western Shu, was hit by an avalanche in Minshan Mountain. He woke up after three days in a coma and claimed to have seen a white jade city hanging above the sea of clouds. No one believed him, but this experience was like a thorn piercing his bones, making him unable to accept a mediocre life for the next twenty years. He became famous in the two capitals with his amazing literary and eloquent talents. He was introduced to the shogunate by the powerful minister Pei Heng, and was summoned by the emperor. He once thought that he had finally reached a position where he could change the world. But the cracks in the prosperous dynasty had already opened - border generals supported troops, vassal towns were enlarged, grain roads were broken, and the northern border fell. In the year when the rebels crossed the river, Shen Kuoyun was forced to board King Jing's ship, thinking he was King Qin, but he was actually involved in a doomed battle for the throne. He was convicted and banished to the wilderness of the southwest. On the way to exile, he saw burnt villages, broken inns, and refugees starving to death on the roadside. Three years later, the pardon letter arrived, and he returned eastward along the Yangtze River. When passing through Jiangxia, he met his old friend Wei Duan, a prefect who kept a county clear during troubled times. Wei Duan didn't ask him how he had lived these years. He just prepared wine for him and asked him to live in Jiangxia. Shen Kuoyun wrote the longest letter in his life in the county town of Wei Duan, addressed to all the people he knew who were dead or still alive. After finishing writing, he discovered that it was never the fame that he could not let go of, but the people he failed to save.
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