Listening to the Wind and Rain

A short tragic romance, coming soon. The remaining chapters are all written and ready to go...

Since it's a novella, each chapter will be fairly short.

Later, I'll write a full-length contemporary story in the same series about intangible cultural heritage. It will have a happy ending and bring some closure to the previous life.

Ten years have passed, and the plants of the world have changed. No one remembers Xie Qishen anymore...

Unrestrained, profligate young master (bottom) x Dashing, charming Jiangnan scholar (top)

That year, a Jiangnan scholar arrived at the northern estate to take charge of the Xie family's unruly young wastrel.

The wastrel couldn't stand this refined intellectual.

Hmph. He looks like a gentleman, but who knows? He could be a beast in fine clothes!

So he made trouble for him at every turn.

But... why did the man know how to do everything?

And... he actually seemed like a pretty decent guy...

The scholar realized there was more to the wastrel than met the eye.

People said he squandered money. They said he had no character, that nothing about him was any good.

But the wastrel would stand up for people when thugs bullied them. He hated evil, and he could carve wood. He was clever, too.

He was good by nature, even if he seemed mischievous and clumsy.

The age they lived in was one of relentless war.

Japanese invaders and other foreign aggressors ran rampant, brazenly carving up and devouring the country's territory, massacring its people without restraint. The national crisis had reached unprecedented proportions.

Then came a group of revolutionaries daring to lead the way!

They raised the banner of "Marxism" and embarked on a grand struggle for national independence and the liberation of the people.

"Listen to the wind and rain. I'll wait for you not far away."

"My beloved sacrificed himself for our country. And I, too, will devote my life to my country."

Note: This is a modern historical novel about the nation and its people. The later chapters will be quite heavy. Its purpose is to remember our national humiliation and honor those who came before us.

Theme: Justice cannot be killed off, because truth will always endure!