She is not a noble daughter of a general, nor is she a strange woman descended from heaven.
She is just a woman in a border town who writes letters and keeps accounts for others, but in an unnoticed corner, she weaves a dark web across post roads, foot shops, caravans and the old city for countless people who want to go home.
He is not a natural star either.
He crawled out from the pile of dead people and hunger and cold, exchanged his life for military merit, and finally came to the Northern Expedition.
They all thought that Yongxi's third year would be the year of his return home.
It wasn't until the wind and snow swallowed up the city gates, and their homeland was so close yet so far away, that they realized:
Some people can come back, some names can stay,
But some homes are destined to be irreversible from the beginning.
Reader comments
The storyline is fascinating and the writing is good. I really want to read it.
The storyline is fascinating and the writing is good. I really want to read it.