The Peerless Escort: Liu Ruyan

In the late Qing and early Republican era, in the autumn of 1911, Zhang Dakui, head of the Yongchang Escort Agency in Tianjin, took on a dangerous assignment: delivering a set of precious ancient scriptures to Beijing’s White Cloud Temple. But as soon as he accepted the job, word went out that someone would intercept the scriptures before they reached the capital…

Among those said to be involved were Li Bufan, a fast-shooting rogue of the martial world, and Wu Tianhao, known as the Black Leopard, a top-tier bounty hunter…

The person tasked with guarding the shipment was an obscure young woman named Liu Ruyan…