In the mid-to-late Ming dynasty, three generations of mandarin duck formations and 120 male and female warriors from eighteen families across China, Japan, and Korea come together in a true historical tale spanning a century of joy and sorrow, love and hatred, the rise and fall of nations, life’s impermanence, and the absurdity of the world. Across its sweeping 1.5 million words, the story unfolds in measured, precise prose, tracing the twists and turns of its characters’ fates, the extremes of human goodness and evil, the stirring force of love and hatred, the difficult choices between life and death, the fierce clash between nobility and depravity, and the seamless blend of historical truth and artistic invention. Its thrilling moments will make you slap the table in amazement; its moving ones will bring tears to your eyes; and its silences will leave you pondering.
It is both a bustling scene like Along the River During the Qingming Festival, with people constantly coming and going, though in the end it all proves a lively dream of wealth and glory, and a melody of kindred spirits like High Mountains and Flowing Water: I knew you, yet you are gone; I burn my huqin to repay your kindness. The heroes of ages past leave their names behind. We lament that in this vast mortal world, heroes may be buried and forgotten. Let us tell those who come after!
The writing is good, the content is expected