In front of Xianyang Palace, hundreds of classics were reduced to ashes. Jiang Yuan stood in the crowd with his head lowered and said nothing.
He is a nobody. The surrendered minister of the State of Qi, the keeper of the archives of the Tingwei Mansion, does not know martial arts, does not have a famous sword, and cannot even withstand the winter of Xianyang. He just wants to keep his head down and live, stay out of trouble, and mind other people's business.
But he discovered a list that shouldn't exist.
That list is called "Cang Long", and it records all the strongholds, hidden stakes and core members of hundreds of schools of thought. It's not for monitoring, it's for cleaning. There is a name on the list, which is his teacher when he was in Jixia.
He should have pretended not to notice. But he didn't.
From the archives of Tingwei Mansion to the dark alleys of Xianyang City, from the secret granary of the farmhouse to the dark prison of the net - a civil servant who only knows how to organize bamboo slips, a taciturn female assassin, and a young mechanic who was expelled from the family, three people who should not have met, stood side by side in the light of burning books in the coldest winter of the empire.
They cannot change the outcome of history. But they changed every morning in history.
This is a story about little people who choose not to remain silent in dark times.
