Wanzhao Building

In the 20th year of Guangxu's reign, Jingzhe occurred. The water level in the Jiangnan Canal is lower than in previous years, but the lights in the Shen Family Wanzhao Building are brighter than in previous years. As the last golden sign of the Qing Dynasty's water transportation, the Shen family seems to be cooking in flames, but in fact it is full of holes. The imperial court wants military pay, the Ministry of Household Affairs wants to audit the accounts, foreign iron ships whistle at the river mouth, and the underground ghosts scream at the Ghost Weeping Beach. When the imperial envoy named Zhao Su stepped into Jiangnan with Zhu Pi who was "ordered to audit the accounts", Wen Yunsheng, the young mistress of the Shen family, knew that the abacus in her hand could no longer settle this bad debt. This is a history of the demise of canals in the late Qing Dynasty. Some people used ink to cover up the blood stains in their account books, some people exchanged their lives for confessions on the river beach, and some people used photos to freeze the embers in a foreign-style building. "In this world, if you want to be a human being, you can't save the Shen family; if you want to save the Shen family, you have to be a ghost."