Wenjian Chunqiu

At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, rituals and music collapsed, the Huangchi Alliance was imminent, and Wu and Yue's struggle for hegemony stirred up the world. In order to fulfill his promise, Shen Ji, a commoner knight, entered Qufu with a plain sword. Above the temple, Jing, the father-in-law of the imperial court, stood alone against the turbulent currents of the dynasty and insisted on benevolent government; under the lonely lamp of the post house, Ji Yan, the keeper of the Zhou Dynasty, traveled thousands of miles eastward, just for a glimmer of light to survive; deep in the shadows, the dead man Ling Ju held a poison-quenched short blade in his hand, and he did not know who to stab between fate and conscience. The Way of Chivalry, the Way of Governance, the Way of Etiquette, and the Way of Fate—four different paths all share the same original intention that refuses to be cool. When the conspiracy was woven into a web and the iron hoof of hegemony trampled the mountains and rivers, they each chose a different path. In the era of collapse of etiquette and collapse of music, some people pursue hegemony, while others succumb to the general trend, but they stick to their hearts and live like lights that refuse to be extinguished in troubled times.