The Green Beetle Chronicle

On the night of the Lantern Festival, the entire Wen family, all seventy-four of them, was wiped out in a single night. The sole survivor was Wen Yan, the capital's most famous playboy, because that night he was drinking aboard a pleasure boat. The extra name on the roster died three days later in a great fire at a mass grave. The one who survived was called Liu Qi. The world sees him as a poor scholar too weak to harm a fly. It does not know that he hides a sword in his sleeve, one that can decide life or death in three strikes. Nor does it know that he has spun an invisible web stretching across the court and the martial world. When the Qingfu stir, nothing under heaven remains secret. Ten years later, he finally finds the man who signed the order: He Lanjun, the Grand Preceptor of the court. As his sword presses against He Lanjun's throat, beacons flare across all nine frontier garrisons, and the realm teeters on the brink of collapse. The only person who can hold this realm together is the man who destroyed his family. I'll kill our foreign enemies for you. You save your life for me. Deal. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.