The Sound of Hujia Is Dead

At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Eight Kings' Rebellion tore through the Central Plains, and the Xiongnu's iron hoof crushed the prosperous age of Taikang. Liu Kun, a talented man from Jinguyuan who once "heard the chickens dance" with his ancestors, went north to Bingzhou after Luoyang City was defeated, and used the isolated city of Jinyang as the last fortress. For ten years, he trained troops in the fields, appeased the refugees, frightened the enemy with his clear whistle, and maintained the fire of civilization in a desperate situation. His mother was captured and died on hunger strike, his subordinates were unjustly killed, his allies betrayed him, and the heavy hammer of fate knocked him down time and time again. When Shile's cavalry crushed the city wall of Jinyang, Liu Kun led his remaining troops to retreat to Youzhou, where he was eventually hanged in prison by Xianbei Duan Pixun. Before his execution, he wrote in "A Gift to Lu Chen", "How can one refine one's strength and turn it into softness around one's fingers", tempering a lifetime of strength into the resilience of civilization. This novel uses a melancholy writing style to describe the tragic journey of a loser who uses perseverance to prove his human dignity. The sound of Hujia travels through time and space, and in the presence of the Xianbei cavalry and in the memories of the people, it completes a resistance that is more eternal than the sword.