The Greenwood Trail

The bandits of the greenwood were once a defining feature of Greater Guandong, and their story is a grotesque chapter of history.

Whether through transmigration or an out-of-body journey, a notebook sealed away for many years will carry us back to an age of intrigue and turmoil, of rival dragons battling and wolves howling as bears roar.

The nation is weak, powerful enemies encircle it, and bandits run rampant! From the First Sino-Japanese War to victory in the War of Resistance, Greater Guandong has seen tigers come and wolves go. Local warlords carve up the land, each occupying their own territory, while invaders use every trick in the book. The flames of war bake the land of Guandong into a glowing red-hot iron plate. People and beasts alike are forced to dance desperately upon it…

Bandits are bandits.

Among them are not only rough, ferocious men, but also beautiful, cold-hearted women.

They are not all ruthless, sinister evildoers who live by the law of the jungle. Some are well-read scholars driven to take desperate risks.

Farmers turn to banditry during the slack season. Merchants band together to buy off bandits. Officials use their power to let bandits run free. Foreign powers directly supply them with money and guns…

Beyond Shanhai Pass, what word could describe the chaos but chaos itself?

When men become bandits, they brazenly rob at gunpoint and ride out to plunder. Women bandits are just as ready to seize by force and kill with a blade.

Society has its laws, the martial world has its rules, and the greenwood has its own code: the way of the greenwood!

The greenwood way forged legendary lives for countless people…