Night Watch in Brocade: The Secret Case of 1644

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng breached the capital, and the Ming dynasty teetered on the brink of collapse.

The veteran Imperial Bodyguard Li Ruolian held Chongwen Gate to the last, only to see his fellow officers flee with a carriage carrying a hidden baby.

On the night the city fell, a mysterious woman named A Xiu appeared. A peerless archer, she was determined to uncover the truth behind a secret letter case from sixteen years earlier.

The whereabouts of the Imperial Seal, secrets of the Liaodong garrisons, and a manhunt by rival factions…

Forced to join forces, the two must find a way to survive in this dying age amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and uncover a shocking secret capable of shaking the foundations of the state.