Jiangnan Hanjiao

It was an era when powerful families monopolized everything. Langya Wang family, Chenjun Xie family - these surnames determine who can be an official, who can marry whom, and who can stand and live under the sun. A child from a poor family is not even qualified to live on his knees. Shen Jiu was unfamiliar with being caught in a gap. He was the legitimate son of the Shen family in Jiangnan, but his mother was from a poor family and his clothes were made of burlap. He ran away from home at the age of sixteen and made a living by copying books for others in Yangzhou. He thought he could live his life if he hid far enough away. But troubled times don't let him hide. My father was trapped in Luoyang Tianlao. The first love was forcibly separated by the family. Those closest to him were poisoned, placed under house arrest, and humiliated in the street. He endured it for three years and finally couldn't bear it anymore. From Yangzhou's back alleys to Suzhou's towers, from Jiangnan's water transport to Luoyang's wind and clouds. He spent three years dormant, broke the situation overnight, and protected for eighteen years. Around him, a group of people who were crushed and put back together by the troubled times gradually gathered: a sister who was blamed for annihilating her family but treated him as her own brother; a landlord who danced on the edge of a knife in the world but said with a smile, "If I win, I will be your underground queen"; a daughter of a noble family who was under house arrest in Luoyang but made a promise with a silver hairpin thousands of miles away; a little girl who crawled out from the dead, clutched his sleeves and said, "I will follow you through swords and fires." They accompanied him through the darkest road and also accompanied him to welcome the brightest light. This is the story of a man who went from being a commoner to being the leader of Jiangnan, and it is also the story of a group of people holding on to the last bit of light in troubled times. That little light was later called Jiangnan.