Honggui: Sword Embroidery Covers Beijing
鸿归:剑绣覆京华
by I Don't Know the Rose (玫瑰不识)
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In the old year of Yong'an, no one in Beijing did not envy the Yanqi family for their childhood love. Yan Jinghong is the most noble legitimate daughter of the family. She is young and gentle, and her skills in Jiangnan embroidery are the best in Beijing, and her swordsmanship is extremely agile. Qizhai was a young man from a poor family who lived in the Yan family. With her devoted help and cultivation, he relied on the resources of the Yan family to embark on an official career. Under the gentle rain of apricot blossoms, we discussed strategies under the lamp. He once held her wrist and swore that one day he would go to the temple and hold power, he would protect her from worries every year, and keep the Yan family stable for generations to come. But fate suddenly turned violent. A sudden river flood and a well-planned family conflict instantly crushed all young love. When Qizhao was ordered to leave Beijing, he was plotted and fell into the river on the way. The news has been lost for countless years. At the same time, the Yan Mansion was overturned overnight, all the families were wronged, and the rich families were stained with blood. The hypocritical concubine took the opportunity to tamper with the truth and spread rumors, falsely claiming that Yan Jinghong drowned himself in the river. She also claimed that Qizhai was ruthless and ungrateful, and just sat back and watched the destruction of her benefactor's family. The people of the world reviled him, but his bones were gone. Only Yan Jinghong escaped death. After several years of wandering in the world, the delicate legitimate daughter who was once raised in a deep boudoir has lost all her innocence and tenderness. She travels around the world incognito, tempering needles to make blades, and refining swords to make sharp edges. She can hide secrets in embroidery and kill with weapons. Her fortune-telling embroidery skills can reveal past events and record evidence of crimes, and her soft-water swordsmanship can break through dangerous situations and quell evil spirits. The court was turbid and the world was dangerous. She endured every step of the way, just to overturn all the conspiracies and redress the grievances of her family on the day she returned. After several years of ups and downs, old friends returned. Qizhao survived the catastrophe. He fought his way out of the bloody sea of corpses at the border and returned to the capital to occupy the position of Prime Minister and Assistant, wielding power over the government and the public. He endured it for several years, secretly investigating old cases, just to find a chance for her to survive, but he was always deceived by the illusion. There is a banquet of flowers and a sudden change in the bamboo forest. An assassin intercepted and killed Yan Jinghong, who had gathered all his sharp edges and was forced to draw his sword. The moment when the sword flashed and the silver needle cut through the wind, killing everyone neatly, the young man who thought about it day and night saw it with his own eyes. Old shadows reunite, mountains and rivers are no longer the same. She is an avenger who has returned from bloodshed and is full of hatred. She regards him as a treacherous and evil person. He was the current prime minister who held a high position and was full of guilt. He couldn't understand that she was full of coldness and was pressing every step of the way. Since then, the court has been playing games with swords and daggers hidden, and the rivers and lakes are killing and grudges are entangled. She wields a sword to seek power, dismantles his wings step by step, and settles all the debts and betrayals of the past; he forbears to give in, uses power as a shield, uses his body as a prisoner, and is willing to bear all her misunderstandings and sharp blades. Years have passed since a misunderstanding, and an old relationship was buried in flames of war. She returned with Feng Xue, not to renew her old dream, but to clear away the bloody injustice of the Yan family and kill all those who had wronged her in the world. Purpose: to break the cliché of "love and hate are black and white" and write about the involuntary, complex human nature and misalignment of fate in troubled times.
