Floating Boat: The Old Dream of Bianjing Burns to Ashes

He is Lu Weizhou, a gifted young scholar from Yuezhou, whose ink-scented writings reveal extraordinary talent and whose years of study conceal lofty ambitions. When disaster strikes his family at ten, his young shoulders bear the burden of a household teetering on the brink. Then, as his heart first stirs with love, Chen Qingliang, pure as a mountain spring, becomes the sole light in his dark years. For the faint hope of an official career, he cruelly parts from the woman he loves and sets off for the treacherous capital of Bianjing.

The powerful take a liking to him, but the feuds behind the grand gates are impossible to read. He has climbed to the clouds, only to fall into the abyss. A political marriage makes him the husband of Liu Yimo, a noblewoman from a powerful family. Is it good fortune, or a calamity? When the splendor fades and his beloved is lost to him, his life’s twists and turns leave him like a lone boat adrift at sea. Can the brush in his hand still write an answer to fate?

See how a scholar from a humble family struggles to survive amid power plays and tangled love and hate, guarding the last glimmer of light in his heart.