Black Cloud Turns Ink: Painting Tribulation

During the Dragon Boat Festival in the sixth year of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty, a fire broke out in the Hanlin Painting Academy. The famous painting of the Tang Dynasty, Lady Guo Guo's Spring Outing, was buried in the flames. The court thought it was an accidental fire, but a mutilated shoe print was left at the scene. The hero and heroine accidentally traveled to the Northern Song Dynasty because of visiting an art exhibition, and became involved in the case. Thanks to the trust of Huizong Zhao Ji, they were ordered to track down the whereabouts of the famous painting. But the road to investigating the case was blocked step by step. It turned out that eight years ago they cut off the criminal's financial path, and now they used the painting as bait to lure them into a revenge trap. The road ahead is uncertain, and this shocking case of using arson to cover up the truth of stolen paintings has just begun. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.