A Sea of Heroic Spirit

In the waning years of the Southern Song, the court was corrupt and incompetent, groveling before foreign powers while ruthlessly exploiting its own people. The people lived in misery, bandits ran rampant, the Jin Kingdom watched hungrily, and the Mongols quietly rose to power. In Hengmen, Lingnan, the descendants of Chai, direct heirs of Zhou Shizong, plotted to restore the Great Zhou Dynasty. Four factions schemed and struggled against one another. On the surface, all was calm, but beneath it, undercurrents surged. Amid this turmoil arose countless vivid heroes and heroines who dared to love and hate.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.