Blue-Gray Phase

A heart-stirring historical novel, it tells the story of Xu Qinghui, a capable minister who came from a poor family and had the ambition to "clean up the filth". In the crisis-ridden empire and outside, he used a green gray inkstone as a spiritual token, determined to reform and help the country, but in the end, he experienced glory, decline and spiritual permanence in the complex political whirlpool.