A Thousand Miles Along the Cold River

A Thousand Miles of Cold River: Synopsis

On a rainy night at the ghost market, an old piece of jade conceals a deadly secret. Seven years ago, the entire Wang clan of Jiangnan was wiped out in a single night. Amid the flames, only the orphan Wang Mingyuan survived, escaping by sheer luck from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

Bearing a deep-seated vendetta, he moves through the darkness, investigating a secretive force called the Red Crow Bureau. The Red Crow shines over the land by day: it is the dynasty’s blade, a killing machine beyond the reach of the law, and the true culprit behind the slaughter of his family. He witnessed the atrocity, but has no proof. All he can do is scour the back alleys at the bottom of society, gathering fragments of the truth inch by inch.

When he risks entering a trap at the ghost market, he meets Thirteen, a boy who has learned to survive on the streets. Slick and cunning, the boy knows all the right people, understands the ways of the martial world and its secret codes, can work every angle, and knows how to break a deadlock. He is the indispensable right-hand man Wang Mingyuan needs to venture into the tiger’s den. Their partnership begins as a transaction for money. As they travel north, a bond forms between them, forged through life and death.

In the northern lands, the head of the Yanmen Sect is about to celebrate his birthday, and undercurrents are stirring from every direction. A sudden, mysterious death plunges Wang Mingyuan straight into the heart of the storm. Cases that seem unrelated are all connected to the Red Crow Bureau, and every layer of conspiracy they uncover points back to the massacre seven years ago.

With extraordinary skill, he reconstructs the truth at crime scenes. With a cool eye, he unravels the knots of intrigue, one thread at a time. The old blood has yet to cool, and new cases keep emerging. The shadows of the imperial court fall over the martial world, while turmoil across the realm stirs up old grudges.

From an old city in Jiangnan to the cold rivers of the north, from secret battles at the ghost market to upheaval among the powerful, Wang Mingyuan and Thirteen stand side by side as they brave dragons’ dens, break out of deadly traps, investigate hidden histories, and seek irrefutable evidence. The cold river stretches for a thousand miles like an open scroll, and their solitary courage writes its own story. In a world shrouded in darkness, he will carve out a path leading to...