The Little Escort: the Secret History of Yuan Jia

In the twenty-seventh year of Yuanjia, Kangcheng was built. Escort master Chen Sankuai accepted a seemingly ordinary urgent escort - sending a heavy escort box to Jiming Temple, but the recipient was Master Liao Kong who passed away just last month. As soon as the escort box was taken away, three groups of pursuers came one after another: a black-clad killer, a government servant, and a mysterious monk. Only then did Chen Sankuai realize that what he was escorting was not an ordinary cargo, but a fatal secret related to the truth about the Yuanjia Northern Expedition seven years ago. From the banks of the Qinhuai River to the night at Jiming Temple, from the mysterious woman to the mystery of the silk book, Chen Sankuai gradually uncovered the truth of the battle that changed the fate of countless people amidst the lights and shadows of swords. When personal life and death are intertwined with the interests of family and country, when the morality of the world collides with the intrigues of the court, the fate of a young escort is closely connected with the history of the Southern Dynasties...