Candle Shadow Running at Night

How can one resist the gravity of an era? Mo Jianwei knows three ways to live: ·Live on your knees (like those silent maids in the banquet hall) ·Become power itself (like Yang Su, compromise in exchange for the qualification for change) ·Stand, even if there is a blade under your feet She chose the fourth option: redefining "standing" in her own way. In the chaotic times of the late Sui Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of people in the south of the Yangtze River exchanged their children for food. The dignitaries in Chang'an were having a banquet, and the shadows of candles flickered red. When the two worlds collided on a snowy night - Mo Jianwei, the daughter of the guilty minister, and Li Jing, the desperate scholar, started a ten-year journey on the run in one night. There is no romanticization of heroic epics, only concrete and subtle difficulties: ·How to make hungry people believe in tomorrow? ·How to rebuild dignity from the ruins? ·How to choose to "try it" when everyone says "it's impossible"? This is a novel about "concrete change". Every grand proposition is transformed into a grain of rice in the character's palm, a drop of blood on the blade of the sword, and a series of footprints in the snow.