Bloody Chess Game

During the troubled times of the Five Dynasties, Xiao Weiyang, the governor of Weibo, was assassinated during a military parade at the school ground. He left behind a riddle on his deathbed: "Water Transport Qingfengcha". The young secretary Lu Mingyuan was caught in the whirlpool. During the investigation, he discovered that the assassination involved corruption in water transportation, missing ordnance, and the mysterious organization "Qingfeng Society". He teamed up with the female counselor Murong Yan, from Yedu to Jinyang, from the rivers and lakes to the temples, and gradually uncovered a shocking conspiracy to collude with the Khitan and bring disaster to the Central Plains. The mastermind behind the scenes, "Mr. Shadow", is like a ghost, manipulating the feudal town's internal strife with the intention of overturning the world. In the historical torrent of Guo Wei's rise to the Han Dynasty and the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, Lu Mingyuan stood between light and darkness, solving the puzzle with wisdom and passion, and guarding the last ideals and light in troubled times amidst the choices of power, morality and love. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.