"The realm falls, but can it be blamed on natural disasters alone? Human calamity is to blame as well!"
In the summer of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the Qing army entered the pass.
The failed scholar Liu Jibai nearly lost his life before the Qing army surrounded the capital. A mysterious traveling merchant from the borderlands, fluent in Manchu, saved him from the blades of the Eight Banners cavalry. Together they fled into the mountains west of the capital, only to stumble upon an ancient and peculiar village hidden in the hills. Betrayal, suspicion, and slaughter awaited them. As the Qing army entered the pass, the villagers chose to shut themselves away from the world, but the famine made the village's atmosphere increasingly sinister.
Liu Jibai wept in mourning for the Chongzhen Emperor and composed an elegy beneath the waning moon over the capital, crying until his tears ran dry. In the end, his actions drew out the Qing soldiers from below the mountain. How would he escape alive amid the chaos? And how would he uncover the great secret surrounding an important late-Ming official before that official was executed?
When it was all over, would the two men, who had originally planned to head south and fight to save the emperor, choose to part ways?
"Liu Jibai, remember to teach the orphan girl the story you told me."
"Tell her that the snow in Jiangdong is sweet."
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This writing style is really amazing! Too high quality!
Thank you to heaven, thank you to earth, thank you for your hard work~
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