From the First Sino-Japanese War to the Xinhai Revolution, undercurrents stir in the ancient city of Chengdu.
In Tianhui Town, the bold and flirtatious Sister-in-Law Cai juggles her relationships with the sworn brotherhood leader Luo Waizui and the Christian convert Gu Tiancheng. A tangled affair of love and vengeance changes her fate and stirs the town's stagnant waters.
On the eve of the storm, Hao Yousan, the son of an official, treads between the old and the new. On one side is the comfort of the family mansion; on the other, a romantic encounter in Xia Lianchi. Meanwhile, revolutionaries are quietly rewriting history.
At last, the great upheaval arrives! The Railway Protection Movement sweeps across the land, while the fashionable Mrs. Huang falls into a forbidden love. People from every walk of life are swept into the tide of history, and gunfire and bloodshed herald earth-shaking change.
This three-volume novel recounts twenty turbulent years in Chengdu at the end of the Qing dynasty. See how ordinary people rise and fall in a great era, and how love, hate, and vengeance are swept along by the tide of history. Open this book and witness the end of one era and the beginning of another!
