"The Legend of Storm Danyun"
Danyun, formerly known as Li Danyun, was a maritime surveyor in the late Qing Dynasty. Due to a secret order, he set foot on an unknown island in the South China Sea alone, shouldering the heavy responsibility of mapping and protecting the territory. Unexpectedly, a storm suddenly arrives, and the isolated island loses contact with the outside world. Ambition and survival, loyalty and self collide fiercely in the stormy waves. With surveying and mapping instruments as his companion and old chronicles as his friends, Dan Yun gradually uncovered the remains of previous dynasties and traces of alien races on the isolated island that had been forgotten by history. His notes not only record the landforms, but also describe the lonely struggle and spiritual watchfulness of a national scholar. Beyond the storm, the undercurrent of the Qing court's power is surging, and every move he makes may rewrite the ownership of the maritime territory. When loyalty, filial piety and self-preservation, family, country and faith are intertwined into a web, how can Dan Yun stick to his true heart under the vast sky and achieve a legend engraved by the storm? This book redraws life on a deserted island with a historical approach and witnesses how a surveyor measured the world and himself in the precarious situation.
