Xianyu Lane

This is an ancient style of Machiavellian suspense novel. The protagonist of the story is Shen Duchen, who once came from a wealthy family. Because of an old case, With his family broken and everyone dead, he hid his name deep in the market place called "Xianyu Lane" and lived a sick and idle life of cooking medicine, sweeping leaves, and basking in the sun. He thought he had escaped the turmoil of the world, but he didn't want the old case to be reopened. The Third Division was eyeing him and wanted to use his hand to turn over the unfinished chess game back then. From then on, Xianyu Lane was no longer a safe haven. Spies moved in, old friends came to visit, and the court forces took turns testing him. As a "waste", Shen Duchen dealt with surveillance and hunting - he got rid of the spies, asked for help, used power to delay, and played a peaceful role to his neighbors. He had no power in his hands, no golden fingers, only three years of experience in the market, a sick body that could collapse at any time, and a fire that was never completely extinguished. The novel is slow and restrained, focusing on "how a person can defend himself in the dark." The smoke of fireworks in Xianyu Lane is intertwined with the undercurrent of the court, dead leaves, medicine Jars, old letters, and eaves bells are all meaningful objects. Shen Duchen is not traditional A sharp-edged protagonist in a sense, he is more like a lone traveler in the long night. Man, holding a long lamp that is about to be extinguished but not extinguished, shines on himself and also That fateful relationship that I don't want to look back on.