The autumn rain of the fourth year of the Apocalypse washed away Shen Xun's old dream of Jiangnan.
When he rushed back to Wuxian from Songjiang Prefecture, the ancestral "Wenyuan Pavilion" had been reduced to scorched earth, and half of the thin gold account book left by his father remained in the ashes - the names of "Wei Liangqing" and "Hakka" on it were like red-hot irons, burning through the lie of "accidental fire". The skeletons of thirty-seven relatives were mixed in the rubble. The mandarin duck handkerchief half embroidered by sister Lin Wan was burned until only the blackened silk thread remained.
Tongsuo, in front of the people of the city, revealed the truth about the eunuch's massacre. But the newly appointed Wang Zhixian's eyes were evasive, and the banknotes from his father-in-law Lin's family were colder than his sister's grave - he finally understood that the "justice" in the sages' books was not as good as a knife in Wei Zhongxian's era.
The account books dug out from the secret compartment record the dirty transactions between Suzhou Zhili Li Shi and the eunuchs, and also contain the ironclad evidence that his father paid for it with his life. He put on a coarse cloth gown, assumed the pseudonym "Xu Chen", and walked into the black-winded Huai'an Mansion with his account books. Here, he met the Shu Kuang swordsman Qin Shu Kuang, a bodyguard leader who used the flying star sword technique to suppress the canal; he also met Li Shi, the eunuch's minion - the smiling tiger who turned Huai'an Pass into a tool for making money.
When the tip of the scholar's pen meets the sword of Jianghu, when the articles of "Da Ming Law" collide with the Tiqi of Dongchang, a revenge in the name of "defense" quietly unfolds: he will use the power of the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau, use the law as a shield, use the account books as a spear, tear open Li Shi's hypocritical mask, and then follow the water transport route to send the evidence of the eunuchs' crimes all the way to the Forbidden City where Emperor Apocalypse lives.
