Snowstorm at Zhujia Manor [Mystery]

During the Jianxing era, Beiting and Nanluo divided their rule along the river, and war raged without end.

On the second day of the first winter month in the twenty-second year of Jianxing, on a snowy day in the depths of winter, an unfamiliar guest arrived at the Zhu family estate in Tianhong Town, Sixian County, Huizhou. He introduced himself as Fang Mingyan.

Fang Mingyan had come to visit the estate's master, Zhu An, the great hero. But Zhu had died unexpectedly a month earlier, and no one would speak clearly about the cause of his death.

Finding this strange, Fang Mingyan stayed to investigate.

He eventually discovered that the mysterious steward of the Zhu estate, Lady Rong Yu; Yun Yu, who had come to visit her; the couple Xie Yuanzhou and Su Yuke, whom Zhu had taken in; and even Miss Zhu and the physician Liu all seemed to have secrets of their own... And when Su Yingfa, the leader of the water fortress who had come to visit, was killed, the case grew even more bizarre.

Inspired by the Southern Song Dynasty, but set in an alternate world. The story takes place in “the Southern Song after Li Shimin transmigrates there,” but it has little of the usual power fantasy, and Li Shimin himself does not appear. I mainly wanted to try the style of The Longest Day in Chang'an, using a single case to sketch an era.

Theme: No matter the dangers and hardships, keep your resolve and endure. Take up the burden of justice, and never shirk your duty.