A Longsword’s Lament

A hero who wields martial arts defies the law; a scholar who wields the written word disrupts it.

Where there is a martial world, there is a land beyond the law.

In the twentieth year of Chongde, the Seventh Prince was brutally murdered in Jiangnan, his head severed from his body. The killer left behind only a puppet mask. Storms stirred in the court and the martial world alike. Autumn winds rose, and swords began to move...