Embroidered Spring Blade: Tales of the Hongwu Era

Embroidered Spring Blade: Hongwu Arc, Introduction

Continuing the tragic wuxia universe of Sunset Sword. In the fourteenth year of Hongwu, Shen Yan, a lone young man in Yingtian with a strong sense of justice and skill in martial arts, is recommended by Xu Da and joins the newly established Embroidered Uniform Guard. He becomes Jiang Huan's adopted son and takes up the Embroidered Spring Blade. While personally caught up in the cases of the blank-seal scandal, Hu Weiyong, Guo Huan, and Lan Yu, he also serves in secret as Crown Prince Zhu Biao's hidden blade, investigating the secrets of the Eastern Palace. As Shen Yan digs deeper, he discovers to his horror that, in order to help Zhu Yunwen claim the throne, Lady Lu has spent years poisoning and plotting against the imperial bloodline, and has even been secretly consorting with the Northern Yuan. Shen Yan gathers evidence of her crimes, but is ambushed by Lady Lu's death warriors. He dies, and the evidence is destroyed. Little does he know that everything is part of Zhu Yuanzhang's calculations. The Hongwu Emperor has already laid out a grand plan, sending a secret envoy to Beiping to inform Yao Guangxiao and patiently await the day when the Prince of Yan launches his campaign to quell the rebellion, so the Lu clan's maternal relatives can be uprooted once and for all. The loyal blade falls, and the storm of the Jingnan Campaign draws near.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Do not imitate.