Crouching Tiger Tribulation

In the second year of Jianning (169), Lin Wang, a scholar from a poor family in Yingchuan, was proficient in law and sincere, so he joined Li Ying, the "model in the world" who was dismissed from office and returned home, and became his secret staff after returning to Luoyang. At that time, the undercurrents in the Eastern Han Dynasty were surging, and the eunuchs Hou Lan and Cao Jie controlled the government. The shadow of the first party-controlled disaster was still lingering, and a coup by Taifu Chen Fan and General Dou Wu to kill the eunuchs was quietly brewing. Lin Wang witnessed the bloody night of the coup when he first entered the official career. He witnessed the cruel defeat and death of Dou Wu and Chen Fan. He also witnessed Li Ying's thunderous methods after being reinstated as Sili Lieutenant. However, the good times did not last long. The eunuch group counterattacked, and the second disaster of party imprisonment suddenly broke out. The imperial court issued an edict to arrest "party members". Li Ying refused to escape, took the initiative to be imprisoned, and finally died generously. As Li Ying's old subordinate, Lin Wang was included in the wanted blacklist and was forced to go underground. Relying on his familiarity with the operating system of the Sili Xiaowei Mansion, he secretly built an escape network to protect his fellow Taoists. He even took the risk to compile the secret records of the "Party Monument" to record the loyal deeds of the Party members for future generations. On the way to escape, he witnessed the death of his colleagues and the decline of people's livelihood. He also made a desperate attempt to assassinate the eunuch but failed. Later, Lin Wang was sentenced to exile in Jiaozhou for covering up the identity of Li Ying's wife and children.