Great Liang Begins with Dreamweaving

After transmigrating as the least-favored illegitimate son of the Liang dynasty's Minister of Rites, Zhao Lin only wanted to run the teahouse he had inherited. But at court, the hawks and doves were locked in fierce debate over the four kingdoms pressing at the borders. On Tongfu Street in the south of the city, a bizarre case of people freezing to death turned countless victims into ice statues. Spirit fish, snow plums, mountains of gold and silver, a bronze mirror that could peer into dreams... one extraordinary spiritual object after another appeared, each carrying a devastating price. Zhao Lin had no desire to get involved in this quagmire, but the streak of purple lightning over his heart kept attracting covetous eyes in the dead of night. The Imperial Astronomical Bureau investigated him, spies kept tabs on him, and even the mad old man in prison called him the “Illuminating Spirit Monkey.” A chaotic age had arrived. Just how many secrets lay hidden in Liang's rainy nights?