The pinnacle masterpiece of suspenseful reasoning and Machiavellian human nature novels.
The rhythm is fast, there are many reversals, the scenes are grand, literary drama, martial arts, lurking, baggage, handsome men, princesses, overt and hidden lines, full of wits and endless climaxes.
Volume One: Behind the scenes of the Imperial Examination
In the spring of the fifteenth year of Yuanyou, Chen Wang, a new scholar in the imperial examination, died at the Qionglin Banquet. Qin Bo, a clerk from a poor family, joined hands with Zhou Bingzhi, the head of the Ministry of Punishment, to uncover the century-old shady story of the Qingliu Society in the fog of the "Seventh Box" of imperial examination fraud. A broken pen, a blood feud between two generations, in the pages of Qing History tampered with ink pen, they used the fragments of the scroll as a blade to beg for their lives from the powerful.
Volume Two: Border Beacons
An emergency report was sent to the border, and the arms reselling case revealed the murder of Chen Guogong 40 years ago. The imperial envoy went north and encountered the black industry network woven deep in the palace of the Queen Mother among the iron walls of the border troops, eunuchs, and merchants. When the truth shakes the country, the young emperor, the retired imperial master, and the surviving orphans all become chess players. Under the candlelight of Shiqu Pavilion, someone is rewriting the mountains and rivers for the unrecorded bones.
