Set in the same jianghu era as Listening Wind Tower, this is part of the “Sighing Jianghu” series, a dreamlike tale of the martial world. Tang Xiaoyao is Feng Ling’s disciple. The story takes place ten years after the Feng Ling arc of Listening Wind Tower, when a new generation of talent has emerged! The Wind-Tongue Art has been passed down well. I’m Tang Xiaoyao, sixteen years old. My master is Feng Ling, head of Listening Wind Tower, the jianghu intelligence bureau. I’ve been her disciple for eight years. My mother, Tang Hua, and Miss Feng are old friends. She had me learn the Wind-Tongue Art’s inner cultivation method from my master so I’d have a way to save my own life. My father is Tang Ce of the Tang Clan of Shu, famous in the jianghu for mechanisms, hidden weapons, poison, and cunning tricks. My parents are fellow disciples and share a surname, so there was never any question about which one I’d take after. They named me Xiaoyao, hoping I’d be humble and courteous, so I could blossom, and run if I couldn’t win. My dad says Tang Clan disciples never get caught up in drawn-out fights. When danger strikes, run for your life. Staying alive comes first.
Li Lianhua has a son, perhaps more than one. This story belongs to the same era, and also to the next. Listening Wind Tower continues the story of Mysterious Lotus Casebook, another ten years on, when his legend still lives on in the jianghu. What will the descendants of two geniuses be like? What kinds of stories will they encounter? Will their adventures be deeply moving, or will they shatter every moral principle?
This book follows a mystery-investigation thread, exploring the truths and life lessons discovered through the eyes of two boys. Faced with life-or-death choices in the treacherous jianghu, they repeatedly test their beliefs and values, breaking them down, rebuilding them, and growing through the process. Does an ideal world really exist? How should one plan for the little space one can call one’s own…
(The focus is on high-IQ showdowns, not characters acting like idiots.)
The young Li Youyou has a sense of responsibility in his bones, which should be related to his bloodline genes. I really want to see what he will look like after he reverses course and becomes the best son in the world of martial arts and the apprentice of the most wealthy woman in the world, haha...