The Jianghu's Most Connected Man

Have you ever been young and reckless, leaving the manor with a sword in hand?

Have you ever mastered secret arts, indifferent to wind and moon?

Have you ever lived like a cloud or a crane, yet failed to escape the imperial net?

Have you ever wandered among the flowers, only for a prodigal to reform?

Have you ever pursued love with all your heart, only to be left crippled for life?

Have you ever been fiercely loyal, dying at your lord’s gate?

When the cold wind circles Fei Shi, storms rage across the jianghu. As power changes hands, from lords and noble houses to merchant women and scoundrels, no one can remain untouched.

The jianghu has three watches of rain: the first is called “revenge,” the second “love,” and the third “the world.”

Shen Ruorao, the jianghu’s most powerful well-connected figure, meets Feng Ling in Xiangyi City. Feng Ling has just left the Black Prison, the world’s foremost assassin organization, where she was known by the codename Cold Wind. The two travel south with the young master Yu Zexiu of the Linglong household and stay for a time in Minwang Valley. While investigating an old case in Wanshu County, they become caught up in the court’s plan to centralize power.

“Have you ever used or deceived her?”

“Yes.”

Just as the court’s plan to absorb the jianghu and unite civil and military authority is about to succeed, concealed by an internal power struggle, enemy spies put their carefully laid plans into motion. When Shen Ruorao crosses the line to save her second brother, she becomes the spark that ignites a war.