At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when Luo Guanzhong was on his sick bed and wrote "Three Heroes Fighting Lu Bu", a Beiyang shell casing filled with gunpowder smoke suddenly rolled out of the inkstone.
An ancient inkstone thus tore apart three troubled times: the flash of swords in Hulao in the late Han Dynasty, the beacon fire in Pingjiang in the late Yuan Dynasty, and the simultaneous collision of guns and artillery in the Beiyang Great Wall. Guan Yu saw the thousand-year-old throne in advance, Lu Bu heard the infamy from later generations, Zhu Yuanzhang had not yet proclaimed himself emperor, and hundreds of thousands of nameless souls were knocking on the door to ask for their last names.
The Tian Ji Division, who is in charge of the annals of history, wants to select twelve heroes to become gods and maintain the destiny of heaven at the expense of all living beings; the nameless demon wants to erase the merits and demerits and turn the three generations into an unknown army that will never resist. Luo Guanzhong, who was forced to become the "man who writes to confer gods", soon discovered that for every person he saved, disaster might befall another era; for every hero he wrote, countless people might lose their names off the page.
Between weapons, gods and demons, and the gate of time and space, Gongsun Yu and Shen Yueluo watch from afar, You Zhenxiao and Jixue revisit their hometown in their old dreams, and Cao Chaoyue and Su Wanqiu leave their lives to each other amid the wounds of artillery fire.
When the history books are about to be closed, Luo Guanzhong must make a final choice: write a hero for heaven, or put down the pen that can command the past and present, and let every mortal speak his name with his own mouth?
Reader comments
Thank you for the very good writing. Keep writing.
Thank you for the very good writing. Keep writing.