Lin Yang’s life once seemed to go perfectly. Then, overnight, everything turned to dust. Rather than sink into despair, he navigates a world of all kinds of people and, with intelligence and grit, finds a glimmer of hope for a poor, remote village in a barren old tea garden, a nearly lost bamboo-weaving craft, and a pot of liquor made by a time-honored method and long forgotten. But unseen eyes are always watching.
This is an expedition in which conviction clashes with profit, and a lone fighter’s desperate counterattack beneath the crushing weight of darkness. The night stretches on, the river keeps flowing, and when dormant thunder finally tears through the silence, he chooses more than revenge. He finds the ultimate answer to how an idealist can hold fast to his original convictions amid turbulent tides.
