Introduction to the novel "The Rules of Nan'an City"
Ten years ago, Gu Yuan's family was brutally exterminated because he was investigating the shady story of Nan'an's water transportation. His son, Gu Hanzhou, lived in seclusion in the mountains for ten years and developed strategic skills and martial arts. He returned to his hometown with only an old copper lamp - the lamp was named "Yingshi", not only to illuminate the way forward, but also to reflect his true heart at all times, so as not to fall into the evil way.
He came back not only for revenge, but also to find a crack in the rigid "rules" so that people living in the shadows could see an extra inch of light.
What was once an enemy is now the rule itself. Officialdom, Jianghu, and espionage networks are intertwined into a huge web of interests. Gu Hanzhou doesn't want to be a moth chasing the flame. He is willing to be a drop of water, penetrating into every gap of the system, taking advantage of human greed, suspicion and fear, and taking advantage of the silent places.
Delivering secret messages in the tea shed, exploring the dock warehouse at night, looking through the account books in the secret room... He played chess in the dark until the seemingly unsolvable web began to twist and break from the inside.
The chess game in Nan'an is over, and the wind and smoke have begun to rise in the North. The father's unfinished clues and the smoke at the border vaguely point to a larger mystery.
This is a game of breaking rules based on rules.
See how one person uses the appearance of water and the toughness to penetrate stone to keep the everlasting lamp in the long night.
Intention: When good people run into walls everywhere and evil people form an iron curtain, the real way to break the situation may not be to hit high walls with blood. Instead, go into the abyss and completely understand the law of darkness; then, use the law itself to make the wall collapse from the inside. The real choice is not whether you see evil, but whether you still believe in the possibility of "good" after seeing everything, and light a solitary lamp for it. This lamp is not meant to illuminate the entire night, but to protect the next soul so that it can breathe more like a "human".