Drunken Hibiscus: A Few Sorrows Beneath the Misty Pavilion

【A forbidden love amid the flames of a chaotic era, a heart-capturing game woven with blood and tears】 In 1923, the warlord Mo Xiang was ordered to slaughter the Si family estate for refusing to open its grain stores. But at the Song residence, amid a thicket of hibiscus, he discovered a pair of terrified eyes: those of Si Nan, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the Si family. From then on, she became a thorn lodged in his heart. Six years later, on the stage of the Misty Rain Pavilion, renowned opera singer Si Nan swept her long water sleeves through the air, singing of the sorrows and joys of the human world. Below the stage, Mo Xiang watched with a dark gaze, his calloused fingers rubbing a bloodstained ticket. When ruthless possession meets resistance unto death, and the murderer of an entire family becomes the lover in her bed, fate has already written the bitter irony of their ill-fated love. Adjutant Song Zhai struggles between loyalty and guilt, while childhood friend Gu Bei spends half his life pursuing the truth. When Si Nan points her gun at Mo Xiang’s heart, and the blood of a miscarriage stains the winter snow, what lies buried beneath the hibiscus tree: hatred, or love left unspoken? Warlord takes her by force × opera singer fakes her death Love in a cage × two mutually obsessive lovers She flees with his child × he chases her to win her back Second male lead sacrificed × third male lead suffers in silence “You killed me once, so I’ll kill you once. Fair enough.” “But if you’re dead, why does it still hurt?” A tragic Republican-era romance, a turbulent chronicle of life written in blood.