Cui Lingzhou, a poor scholar, finds his soul transported into the final years of the Wu Zhou dynasty. With a bloodstained scholar’s robe and a mysterious bronze box, he wields poetry as a blade and overturns the schemes lurking in the imperial palace.
His policy essay at the palace examination astonishes the empress. A chain of poems at the Dragon Gate exposes a network of spies, while the Golden Crow of Anxi sets the beacon fires ablaze.
He takes up Li Bai’s drunken brush as a sword and weaves Du Fu’s epic into armor, defending the splendor of the Kaiyuan era.
Yet he is ultimately caught in the hidden festering wounds of a prosperous age: rebellion lies beneath the Rainbow Skirt and Feathered Robe, blood-soaked poems turn Suiyang into a lonely fortress, and the bronze box at Mawei reflects the ashes of catastrophe.
As the iron hooves of the An Lushan Rebellion trample Chang’an, he burns his poetic soul as kindling, igniting the “Three Treasures of the Golden Age” hidden away by Di Renjie
The blue robe gathers in the moonlight of the High Tang; the soul of poetry endures, as does the soul of the Great Tang!
The author has profound thoughts, mature writing style, three-dimensional characters and delicate emotions.
Full of suspense, it feels like watching Detective Di Renjie