"The Officials" is not a simple "eunuch novel".
It is a book about "incompleteness and wholeness" - the body can be castrated, but the soul cannot.
It is a book about "power and responsibility" - power is a knife, and the person holding the knife determines the good and evil of the knife.
It is a book about "history and future" - only those who understand history are qualified to write the future.
It is also a book about "martial arts, tactics, and war" - there are swords and shadows, intrigues, and iron horses.
Lin An's story begins in a dilapidated house in the Clothing Bureau.
His destination is the sea.
On the other side of the sea, there is a new era.
