Old Stories in Barren Hills

In the autumn of the fourteenth year of Yong'an, the Lin family of General Zhenbei was destroyed. The second son, Lin Xuan, survived by luck, but he was burdened with blood feud and went south alone. From the ruined temple in the barren mountains to the branch in Jiangnan, from the main building in Zhongzhou to the Huaihua Lane in the capital, it took him twenty-five years to piece together the hidden thread that runs through the court, the rivers and lakes, and the northern barbarians behind the Lin family's extermination. The fourth prince asked him to help seize the legitimate son, and he asked the fourth prince to rehabilitate him. The two reached an agreement at Jinxi Tea House - each gets what he needs and owes nothing to the other. At the Hanyuan Palace Ceremony, the late emperor confessed his crime in person. The Lin family was rehabilitated and everyone was in disgrace. However, Lin Xuan drank the last bowl of tea in the side hall, said to his former young confidant, "The tea is cold," and then turned and left. He walked out of the gate of Zhongzhou City, and no one knew where he went. Don't touch an inch of the Zhou family. In one sentence: a person goes from being a lonely soul with amnesia to complete personality redemption, seeing through the illusion of imperial power, and knowing how to live.