Song Ci's Casebook of Injustice: A Moonlit Day

During the Qingyuan era of the Southern Song dynasty, Emperor Ningzong Zhao Kuo was incompetent, while the treacherous chancellor Han Tuozhou colluded with Grand Empress Dowager Wu Shaofen to seize power and rule as they pleased. They imposed a sweeping ban on dissenting factions and purged their opponents, leaving the court rife with cliques and corruption. Beyond the court, the Jurchen still harbored ambitions of annexing the Southern Song, while Han Chinese rebel armies rose up in the occupied territories. Beset by troubles at home and abroad, the already faltering Southern Song was on the brink of collapse. Then, like a thunderclap from a clear sky, a vast treasure left behind by the late treacherous chancellor Qin Hui resurfaced. Wandering heroes, bandits, members of the Zhao imperial clan, and foreign spies all coveted it and watched each other warily. The renowned Xin Qiji, the great Confucian scholar Zhu Xi, descendants of Yue Fei, and members of the Qin family were all drawn deep into the fray…