The Dragon’s Song on the Huai River

The Dragon's Song on the Huai River The moon sets over the Huai River, and strings burst with clear light. In one night of wind and rain, the Gu clan of Wu County, a family with a hundred years of history, was reduced to a field of dry bones. Gu Cheng, the sole survivor of the massacre, was escorted to Kuaiji by a master of the zither arts, where he went into hiding under an assumed name. As he nears adulthood, the young man takes up his sword and leaves the mountains. A wrongful conviction sets half of Jiangnan in motion. The undercurrents at the Jian Kang court, the schemes of the northern border troops, and the intrigues among the Jiangdong clans are all entangled in the old case of the Gu family. The jianghu stretches far and wide, where blades and political schemes go hand in hand. Are old acquaintances friend or foe? Is the truth true or false? He travels across the mountains and rivers of Wu and Yue, searching through one elaborate scheme after another for the truth behind the extermination of his family. The Huai flows east, and the dragon's song echoes faintly. Only when the mist clears will right and wrong in this world be revealed. Alternate history, Jiangdong clans, political intrigue and mystery, wuxia, revenge of an orphaned survivor, the turbulent age of Wu and Yue.