(I)
Two families have stood firm in the capital for generations.
One is the Murong family, based in the south of the city, whose scholarly legacy has been passed down through the ages.
The other is the Su family, longtime residents of the north, who hold military power in their hands.
The two families have been enemies for generations.
The Murongs look down on the Su family's rough-and-tumble soldiers, who can barely read a word.
The Sus can't stand the Murongs' noses-in-the-air arrogance and self-righteousness.
Who could have guessed that on an ordinary spring day, the Murong and Su families would announce a marriage alliance to unite their houses?
The people of the capital were stunned. Could the whole world be turning upside down?
(II)
It wasn't just the world turning upside down. Murong Zhuiyue's world was practically collapsing.
The Murong family had plenty of children.
But it was Murong Zhuiyue, who had always loved freedom and refused to be tied down, who drew the lucky lot at the marriage-alliance lottery and was assigned the marriage.
Murong Zhuiyue had grown up hearing stories about the Su men killing their wives and abusing their children. She wouldn't even go shopping in the north of the city, and now she was supposed to marry into the Su family?
Enough was enough.
Murong Zhuiyue decided to pack her bags that very night and flee south to escape the wedding.
On the road, she met some like-minded companions. One of them went by the name Meng Nanzhou.
Murong Zhuiyue thought it was a cool name. She decided to come up with a name for herself too, one that would make her famous throughout the martial world someday. She would be called
Above the Moon!
(III)
Su Beiwang was born on the frontier and raised in the military, but he was weary of the battlefield and loathed killing.
His ideal life was to live in seclusion at a mountain academy somewhere in Jiangnan and become an easygoing teacher, free as a cloud and wild as a crane.
One day, his family urgently summoned him back to the capital. It turned out they meant to force him into a marriage alliance with the Murong family in the south of the city.
Su Beiwang thought, Why not just make a clean break and flee straight to Jiangnan?
With a sword and a flute, he set out along the Jiangnan road of his dreams.
As he sailed down the river, he felt he was almost floating up to become an immortal.
But could someone tell him why that young girl, who had ventured into the martial world without even choosing a proper name for herself, had followed him the whole way and was now paddling a little boat behind him...
Oh, she'd already passed him.
But, "Why has my luxury wooden raft sunk instead?!"
"Hey, you white-robed hero! Tell me, what exactly is the martial world we long for supposed to be like?"
*Dear guest, you may not know this, but the martial world is full of danger. It's best to travel with companions.
*An ancient-style road novel. Ensemble cast. Episodic.
Theme: Friendship means returning kindness for kindness.
