Records of Washing the Brush in a Fleeting Life

Jiang Hua was a pedantic scholar from Qiantang Village. Because he had been recommended for his filial piety and was himself a paragon of filial devotion, an old monk with spiritual cultivation came to him in a dream to ask him to carry out a task. Jiang Hua then learned that his parents’ deaths were no ordinary matter. As he sought the truth behind their deaths, he was inexplicably framed, and his elder brother, Jiang Dong, was murdered. With no other choice, Jiang Hua changed his name to Jiang Yilang and wandered the martial world. Meanwhile, his lover Wang Ruolan’s entire family was also murdered. Jiang Yilang took her with him as she changed her name to Wang Yishu, and together they fled their enemies’ pursuit.

Jiang Yilang is thus drawn into court intrigues and the tangled affairs of the martial world. How will he avenge his parents and brother?

As the imperial court undergoes historic change, what path will he take?

Amid all this, signs of the court’s downfall have already emerged. The wheels of history will keep turning, unstoppable by anyone!