Dunhuang Posthumous Notes

In the first year of Xuantong, Luo Yongyu, a pedantic and upright academic counselor, was appraising the Dunhuang scriptures at the Liuguo Hotel and discovered that the national treasure was being plundered by Western explorers. After learning the truth, he resolutely requested an order to go west and escort the suicide notes from the Sutra Cave to Beijing. Little did he know that he had been involved in a vortex of competition between various forces! Idealistic scholars, bodyguards with blood feuds, revolutionary parties who are both good and evil, and well-hidden overseas students... Desert wolves, official conspiracies, and bandit pursuits follow one after another, and the most deadly threat comes from the scriptures themselves that they are sworn to protect... When the camel team crosses the Hexi Corridor, when the sheepskin raft crosses the dangerous shoals of the Yellow River, when the train travels on the Beijing-Hankou Line, when faith and betrayal are intertwined in blood and fire... How many human lives are worth exchanging for these fragile scrolls of paper? This is a secret battle for the survival of civilization, and it is also a struggle of literati in troubled times using pen and ink as swords and guns - because history never allows to be buried by lies.