Mountains and Rivers Cut

In the 129th year of the Great Yong Dynasty, the prosperous age burned out and the mountains and rivers collapsed. The imperial power is in vain and the emperor is weak; the clans are divided and the private soldiers are self-reliant; the vassal towns are dominated by tigers and ambitions are undercurrent; thousands of people are as homeless as mustard. Xie Linyuan, the son of the guilty minister, walked into the dead capital alone with a frost knife from the previous dynasty stained with the emperor's blood. He is the only person in the world who can reverse the decline, and he is also the person on the edge of the sword that the monarch, the nobles, and the town all want to control and get rid of quickly. The emperor used him to quell chaos, but he had hidden murderous intentions; the nobles were afraid of his sharpness, but they used him to kill dissidents; the feudal lords hoped that he would disrupt the government and swallow up the Yongjiang Mountains. The person he loves is the legitimate daughter of a wealthy family who bears the blood feud of the Xie family; his closest brother is the commander-in-chief of a feudal town who holds a heavy army in the north; his mentor is the chess player who forged him into a sharp blade and then pushed him into the abyss with his own hands. Mountains and rivers serve as blades, and life serves as a sheath. Once this sword comes out, it will never return to its sheath. Xie Linyuan's fate was determined from the moment he stepped into the capital - he could only fight to the death, and he could only die.