An Ordinary Man’s Path Through the Martial World

Name: An Ordinary Man’s Path Through the Martial World
Author: Disciple of Wang Mi

江湖凡人路

by Disciple of Wang Mi (王酩之徒)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 375k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical & Ancient
Updated: 9mo ago
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This is my first long novel. The early chapters move slowly, but they follow an essential part of the characters’ emotional journeys. After much deliberation, I decided to keep them. Feel free to skip the prologue and start with Chapter One. I hope you’ll understand. On the execution ground, I, Timur, a gifted blacksmith, had become a condemned prisoner. The common folk cursed me for cutting corners and causing the deaths of soldiers on the frontier. My parents knelt below the platform, sobbing uncontrollably. “My son, if only you’d listened to us back then, how could things have come to this...” Listen to them? I laughed. I had once been full of youthful idealism, wielding peerless craftsmanship and believing that with my “Red-Blooded Sword,” I could make a name for myself in this glittering, ravenous capital. But the heaviest shackles did not come from a treacherous foe. They came from my parents’ words: “We’re only doing this for your own good.” For the “honor of our family” they spoke of, I was forced to give up my principles. For the “success” they wanted for me, I broke my own backbone and begged for scraps from the very people I despised most. I thought it was filial piety. I never knew the road would end at the executioner’s block! In this boundless hell, only one man understood me. He was a down-on-his-luck swordsman and a hero burdened with a blood feud. He pulled me out of the mire and said, “Boy, a good life starts with being at peace in your heart.” When the executioner’s blade falls, is it the end or the beginning? #Ancient setting #Realism #BE aesthetic #Angst #Common folk #Family shackles #Craftsmanship #Political intrigue

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