Snowflakes Like a Lament

In 1926, in Yongfang County in the southwest, the Yang family, who ran a successful raw lacquer business, flourished. The head of the family, Yang Jingxuan, was refined and open-minded, with a kind heart. His wife, Madam Liu, was clever, perceptive, beautiful, and generous, and a capable assistant to her husband. The Yang family was among the wealthiest in the area. But after 1937, when the Japanese invaders bombed Chongqing, the Yang family's youngest son, who was studying there, returned to his hometown. His difficult life began amid turbulent times, and the Yang family would suffer one upheaval after another as the years went by...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.