Dusk Crane Returns

During the Jing Dynasty, the emperor was fatuous and incompetent. There were eunuchs at home who were disrupting the government, and there was King Xing who had many troops and had evil plans outside. At that time, the Prime Minister Gu Zongzhou was the only clean and upright man in the court. Therefore, he was framed and his whole family was wiped out. Only one son, Gu Shaotang, escaped by chance and lived in the rivers and lakes. He was brought back to Emei to study art by the Emei heroine Cui Luhua. King Xing continued to expand his power and bribed Yun Tianfan, the head of the Central Plains Alliance's bodyguard bureau, to work for him, transport weapons and supplies, and camp outside Luoyang City in preparation for rebellion. Yun Tianfan drew a map of the place where supplies were stored, but the map was intercepted by Cui Luhua on the way to King Xing. Cui Luhua used this to invite death. Before his death, he hid the map in his sword "Crane Return". In order to avenge Cui Luhua, Gu Shaotang found the Hegui Sword, got rid of Yun Tianfan and other scum in the world, exposed King Xing's conspiracy to rebel, brought him to justice, and restored peace to the world... This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.