A Tang Dynasty guqin "Songfeng" was lost overseas, and a thrilling confrontation at a Hong Kong auction pushed young qin player Lin Wei into a mystery of grievances spanning three generations. From old houses in Shanghai to London auction houses, from Paris archives to the Vienna Concert Hall, she pursues the millennium secret hidden in the ice cracks on the piano body - it is the music theory manuscript of Lei Wei, a luthier in the Tang Dynasty, who traveled thousands of miles westward and had conversations with Byzantine musicians.
Faced with the increasing pressure of Western collecting families, the fierce competition between academia and business, and the questioning of the times between tradition and innovation, Lin Wei wandered between her grandfather's legacy and her family's pain. And when she meets Alex Winter, a mixed-race scholar who bears the shackles of her family, the moonlight from the East and the West intersects on the strings, and a dusty musical Silk Road gradually wakes up.
This is not only the return home of a guqin, but also a dialogue between civilizations that spans time and space. In the collision and resonance of Eastern and Western cultures, the protection, misunderstanding and reconciliation of three generations finally found the answer in the sound of the piano - the true inheritance is not to recreate the past, but to play the harmony of this era with the soul of history.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
