A blue and white jade bracelet engraved with the four-character ancient seal "Yu Huang Tian Ye" threw medical student Li Xiaohan from Chengdu in 2026 to the bloody battlefield on the banks of the Mahu River in 1256 AD.
As a doctor, she was trapped in the enemy camp, torn between the blade and the fragrance of medicine. A pine and bamboo peace pendant connects her to a life-and-death covenant with two young men from Shu - one endures humiliation and hides the enemy, while the other goes to die alone.
This journey spanning seven hundred years is not a carnival of golden fingers, but a swan song of character and benevolence.
Mountains and rivers can be broken, cities can be destroyed, but integrity will never die, and loyalty will never die.
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The writing is great and feels very real. It is written about how ordinary people can keep their hearts and mountains and rivers in troubled times.
Not history, more than history, the little people of historical events. Move forward stubbornly in the rolling wheel of history!
The details are rigorous and detailed, not careless. Excellent work.
The writing is great and feels very real. It is written about how ordinary people can keep their hearts and mountains and rivers in troubled times.
Not history, more than history, the little people of historical events. Move forward stubbornly in the rolling wheel of history!
The details are rigorous and detailed, not careless. Excellent work.