Lotus Flower. Heart Sword

Author: Cao Xue
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: In the late Western Han Dynasty, the land was in turmoil, and the martial world was in chaos. The head of Lingxiao Manor, a spiritual beacon in the martial world, sends his daughter to marry into the Uzun tribe in the northern frontier. On the Gobi Desert, sudden flashes of swordplay and blade light. The son of the general's mansion in Jincheng Commandery is injured by a black-clad assassin, and the story unfolds from there. A secret letter sent by a daring youth at night in the Shajing Villa, the mysterious disappearance of the Ziwai Sword buried in the Yumen Tomb, a fire that lit up half the night sky, hundreds of deaths in Jincheng Commandery without reason two years later, the brilliant and wandering martial artist, the bloody massacre of five young heroes in Lingbo Hall, the secret passage revealed by opening a sandalwood box—how many endless secrets are still hidden behind it? Six years later, in the Zilin Bamboo Forest, a woman who died in love in a long night as endless as a cycle of billions of years rises from the dead. What magic does the miraculous Ziwai Sword possess? Who painted the woman on the "Wild Goose Return Painting"? The general's beauty, the scholar's charm—what tragic joys and sorrows, what long songs of sorrow have unfolded over the past forty years? Did he truly kill the beauty, did she truly see through the world, did he truly become an enemy out of hatred—what are the separations of love, the unattainable desires, the hatred and resentments, the fiery Yin? What is the meaning of avenging a guest and dying for one's master? Can love lead to companionship, or will it follow one to the brink of life and death? Childhood sweethearts, love at first sight, mutual support—what are their respective endings? Does love last until death? When will the burning passion and lofty ambitions end? How is the epic of life written? And how is the cycle of life and death?