A Voyage Through the Great Song Dynasty

Liang Shuheng is a woman who lives aboard a boat, traveling back and forth along the Grand Canal all year round. She's also an assassin who makes her living by killing. Wherever her boat goes, she leaves a trail of bodies. Heartless bastards who dote on their concubines and neglect their wives deserve to die. Corrupt officials who prey on the people deserve to die. Local gentry and merchants who bully the weak but fear the strong deserve to die. And so do the sons of prominent families who steal the examination rankings of impoverished scholars! She once resented Heaven's injustice. Though she and her elder brother had the same mother, they had completely different fates. Then her brother came hunting for her... She had also lamented how cruel fate could be. Her maternal grandmother had chosen her a husband who was burdened by deep grievances, and after they married, he disappeared. Then one night, her husband came back and hid in her cabin... Hooves thunder southward as eyes turn north to the Central Plains. The Grand Canal stretches on, sails overlapping in the distance. Resistance beneath a fragile peace, decay behind the glittering prosperity. In the end, no one can stay untouched. “Mountains and passes are hard to cross. Who will mourn those lost along the way? We meet by chance like duckweed on the water, yet all are travelers from distant lands.” (Aside from historical figures, all characters in this story are fictional. Please don't overanalyze the history.)