Yanbei Long Night

In the thirteenth year of Shaofeng's reign, the seventieth year of Yanyun's fall. Yu Qinghe, a female detective from the Secret Service of the Southern Dynasties, went north to Youzhou as an opera actress to investigate the rebellion of the old Yan clan. She originally thought she would see a ruined city trampled by foreign cavalry. But in Youzhou, there was no exile and crying as she imagined. People were talking about taxes, coal prices in winter, and which government school to send their children to in the coming year. It seems that the seventy years of loss have been completely digested by this city. Wanyan Zongheng, the commander-in-chief of Youzhou. He never kills indiscriminately, does not indulge in selfish desires, and can even be called kind. There is an almost cold order in Youzhou under his rule. Yan Pingshan, the second son of the Yan family, is like the biggest mystery in this city. He is Yunsi's most dangerous spy, but he also seems to be outside all orders. Yu Qinghe always believed that even if he was in Yanyun, Yanpingshan was still a member of the motherland. Until she saw it with her own eyes—— Evidence of the Yan family's betrayal. Later, the water in Baigou River rose. Old scrolls, broken bones, and missing names surfaced together with the heavy snowfall twenty years ago that no one dared to look back on. Qinghe finally understood that the most difficult thing to distinguish in the world is never friend or foe. But many years later, when there is only a vague word left about the motherland, who should people live for? 1. A group portrait of two powerful people, fictional history, family and country intrigues, espionage suspense, and the reversal of old cases. 2. Main plot CP: The sober and restrained female detective of the Southern Dynasties × the hard-spoken and soft-hearted young master of the Youzhou family. 3. The male and female protagonists are facing each other and testing each other, and the emotional line and the investigation line run parallel. 4. It is not just a revenge novel, it focuses on exploring the choice between homeland, belonging, order and living people. 5. Slow-moving, emotionally restrained, the characters all have their own positions, and there is no absolute good or evil. Purpose: When Yu Qinghe went north under the orders of the Southern Dynasty, he thought that the boundaries in the world were clearly defined: the Southern Dynasty was the homeland, Shuoting was the enemy country, and the Yan family were sinners who abandoned their homeland and lived under foreigners. But when she really walked into Youzhou, she realized that seventy years had already blurred the simple distinction between ourselves and the enemy. The so-called lost land is not only inhabited by the remnants who are waiting for the return of Master Wang. There are also generations of ordinary people here who have been born, grown up, and have families. They remember the old dynasty and have adapted to today; some are still looking forward to returning south, while others just hope that the city gate will not be opened by war again. For the court, Yanyun is territory, a national humiliation, and an orthodoxy that must be recovered; for the people of Youzhou, it is first and foremost home, including fields, relatives, smoke, and the daily routine of being able to open their doors and do business tomorrow. And the so-called king's master, loyal ministers and righteousness may not necessarily represent justice naturally. When a dynasty can decide to sacrifice for the people in the name of its motherland, and push living people to the battlefield in the name of old hatred, then what it defends may only be its own name, not the people on this land. Yan Pingshan defended Youzhou not because he was loyal to Shuoting's imperial power, nor because he had forgotten the old history of Yanyun. He just knows better than anyone else that what a city really needs to defend is never its flag, but the people who are still alive in the city. He did not want Youzhou to once again become a price that could be repeatedly discarded when the Northern and Southern Dynasties were fighting for legitimacy. What Yu Qinghe ultimately had to face was not just the choice between the Southern Dynasty and Shuoting, but another more difficult question: when the motherland cannot protect the people it claims to recover, and when justice requires countless nameless people to die for it, should a person be loyal to the name of the past, or to the real life in front of him? In the long night and lost land, what is truly worth holding on to is not only the memory of the motherland, nor the stability itself under alien rule, but the dignity, choice and destination of living people.