Republic-Era Hero: Cloud-Walking Goose, Bloodshed on the Shanghai Bund

In the thirteenth year of the Republic of China, under the Jiazi sign of the zodiac. Frost’s Descent had just passed, and the morning fog over Yancheng in northern Jiangsu carried a biting chill. Like waterlogged cotton batting, it hung heavy over the surface of the Chuanchang River. The creak of an oar from a black-canopied boat emerged from the mist, sending ripples across the water as the outline of the Yun family manor on the bank grew ever clearer