[Ancient proverb about fetal transmigration + confiscation of homes and exile + treasure appraisal and failure + infrastructure construction in Xizhou + power schemes of two powers + marriage first, love later]
Others relied on space to store goods in exile, but Wang Ju relied on a pair of eyes for treasures and a belly full of old history in Xizhou.
She was originally a doctor of modern Dunhuang studies, but she was reborn as the direct daughter of the Langya Wang family. She waited for seventeen years just to set foot on the road to Xizhou and leave to future generations the documents, Buddhist caves and civilization that were about to be swallowed up by the wind and sand.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the imperial edict of marriage was issued, Zhenbei Palace was accused of collaborating with the enemy. Her unmarried husband, Xie Heng, was seriously injured and imprisoned. The entire Xie family was ransacked and exiled, and the Wang family immediately cut her into pieces.
Thousands of miles of desolate road, old and weak tribesmen, the imperial power is chasing her, and everyone is waiting to see her die.
But she won't die.
Fraudulent evidence is hidden in forgeries, the truth of old cases is hidden in nonsense, desert water veins can save a family's life, and a incomplete document can overturn the conspiracy of the court.
On the way to exile, she rescued the old and the weak, established rules, defeated pursuits, and won people's hearts; when she arrived in Xizhou, she opened a market for food, built karez wells, built a school, and protected Buddha caves, turning a desperate and deserted city into an important Silk Road town.
Xie Heng initially only recognized her as his wife and did not dare to have sex. Later I realized that she had never just defended a city.
He defends the territory, she defends civilization.
After thousands of years of wind and sand, someone will always leave a light for those who come after.
Reader comments
This is a love letter to civilization.
It has an extremely tacky opening - marriage, confiscation of home, exile, but within this cliché there is a rare, still-water-deep sense of sophistication. The golden finger of the heroine Wang Ju is not the system or the spiritual spring, but her professional qualities as a doctor of cultural relics - treasure appraisal and valuation to control trade routes, multilingual skills to connect all ethnic groups, hydrology and geography to save Xizhou, document research to reverse the family's case, and Dunhuang studies to allow her to record everything before destruction. Her relationship with Xie Heng, the actual leader of the North, is not about who is attached to the other, but about two chess players completing a long process of mutual recognition on the chessboard of destiny. What he defends is territory, and what she defends is civilization. The most advanced romance in the book is hidden in the Sogdian inscription in the Dunhuang Buddhist Grottoes - someone lit a lamp in the darkness a thousand years ago, and a thousand years later the person who was willing to add fuel to it came.
I really like this setting. The story is very logical, the rhythm is tight, and it's not laggy at all.
It's super exciting, the story is so well written, and the characters are so three-dimensional.
He defends the territory, and she defends civilization. The two are entangled with each other, which is very exciting.
The story is wonderfully written, rich in content, and great
The characters are portrayed very delicately, the story is wonderfully written, the rhythm is very strong, and it is very comfortable to watch.
This is a love letter to civilization. It has an extremely tacky opening - marriage, confiscation of home, exile, but within this cliché there is a rare, still-water-deep sense of sophistication. The golden finger of the heroine Wang Ju is not the system or the spiritual spring, but her professional qualities as a doctor of cultural relics - treasure appraisal and valuation to control trade routes, multilingual skills to connect all ethnic groups, hydrology and geography to save Xizhou, document research to reverse the family's case, and Dunhuang studies to allow her to record everything before destruction. Her relationship with Xie Heng, the actual leader of the North, is not about who is attached to the other, but about two chess players completing a long process of mutual recognition on the chessboard of destiny. What he defends is territory, and what she defends is civilization. The most advanced romance in the book is hidden in the Sogdian inscription in the Dunhuang Buddhist Grottoes - someone lit a lamp in the darkness a thousand years ago, and a thousand years later the person who was willing to add fuel to it came.
I really like this setting. The story is very logical, the rhythm is tight, and it's not laggy at all.
It's super exciting, the story is so well written, and the characters are so three-dimensional.
He defends the territory, and she defends civilization. The two are entangled with each other, which is very exciting.
The story is wonderfully written, rich in content, and great
The characters are portrayed very delicately, the story is wonderfully written, the rhythm is very strong, and it is very comfortable to watch.