Bai Biaoji

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the country changed hands and the blood rain did not stop. Wu Wan, the former Jin Yiwei, was charged with the sin of being the savior and was thrown into the desperate situation of Zhongshan, Nanjing. Here, three hundred prisoners on death row were forced by the Qing government to start a killing game. Thirty days later, only the last survivor would be able to walk out of this mountain. In this hunting ground of death, which is surrounded by thousands of soldiers and shrinks every day, Wu Wan accidentally meets Zhou Lianlian, a Qinhuai singer. One is a warrior who lives by killing, and bears the guilt of failing to save his young master; the other is a woman with beautiful flowers in the bricks, who has the wisdom of spiritual guidance. The two formed an alliance amid suspicion, got to know each other amid killing, and in the broken mountains and rivers, tried to protect the last glimmer of light in each other's hearts. However, Zhongshan's killing scene is just a bigger chess game. Zheng Chenggong's naval troops arrived at the gates of Nanjing, and the fire of restoration was ignited again; the Qing governor secretly sat in power, surrounded by murderous intent. When Wu Wan retrieves the embroidered spring knife that symbolizes the past, and when Zhou Lianlian breaks branches and dances under the flowerless plum tree, they must face the final choice: to become pawns in the troubled world, or to find a human path in the blood? "The Story of Bai Biao" is not only a historical legend with tight rhythm, exquisite structure, full of foreshadowing and tension, but also a tragic epic about guilt and redemption, violence and dignity. To create beauty in desperate situations and protect civilization in ruins, the author uses restrained writing, poetic artistic conception, and techniques full of metaphors and symbols to show readers not the traditional chivalrous martyrs or those who rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, or simple confrontations between loyalists and traitors, but heroic poems about how every ordinary person fights for dignity under the torrent of history.