Sorrowful Hong: The Broken Moon Returns to the Boat

[Single Heroine]+ [Redemption]+ [Lin Pianpian]+ [Transmigration]

The ninth year of the Chongzhen reign, Yangzhou.

Ten-year-old Shen Yinzhou transmigrated from a secret realm, carrying the Nine-Turn Reincarnation Spearmanship and wielding the Thousand-Jun Moon-Shattering Spear. His martial arts had already reached the pinnacle.

He happened upon Li Qiansheng, a newly qualified scholar, and mistakenly wandered into the pleasure quarter of the Twenty-Four Bridges. After buying a courtesan’s freedom, he heard a girl’s heart-wrenching cries from deep within the brothel district.

“Mother! Don’t sell me!”

Fourteen-year-old Lin Hui’er was treated as a burden by her own mother and sold into the red-light district for twenty taels of silver. The character “Hui,” meaning “regret,” was part of her name: a reflection of her mother’s hatred for her father, and a curse upon her entire life.

Shen Yinzhou rescued her from an old woman and led her across the Twenty-Four Bridges.

He told her: “From now on, that ‘regret’ in your name won’t mean regret anymore. It will mean having no regrets. I won’t let you regret anything in the future.”

She called him Big Brother Shen and said that wherever he was, that was home.

But the Great Ming of the Chongzhen era was already rife with undercurrents. The remnants of the eunuch faction had yet to be eradicated, rebels were rising everywhere, and the Later Jin cavalry was watching from the north. The “Yangzhou Massacre,” which would change countless lives, was only nine years away.

He was the tail, coming from the future; she was the head, heading toward a new life. Their ends joined, bound by the cycle of cause and effect.

This is not a story about a hero saving the world.

It is the story of a young man in a time of chaos, doing everything in his power to protect a girl and give her a home.

He was only passing through, yet he became the boat that carried her home.