Lotus Flower. Heart Sword

Author: Cao Xue
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
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 Wusun tribe across the desert. On the Gobi, sudden flashes of swordplay and blade light. The son of the general's mansion in Jincheng Prefecture is injured by a black-clad assassin, and the story unfolds from there. A secret letter delivered by a daring youth at midnight in the Shajing, 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 Prefecture without cause two years later, the brilliant swordsman who roams the martial world, the bloody massacre of five young heroes in Lingbo Hall, the secret passage revealed when the sandalwood box is opened. 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 ""? The general's red beauty, the prince's red attire—what joys and sorrows, songs of sorrow, have unfolded over the past forty years? Did he really kill the red beauty? Did she really see through the world? Did he really become an enemy out of hatred? What are the separations of love, the unattainable desires, the hatred and resentments, the blazing Yin? What is the meaning of avenging for others and dying for one's master? Can love lead to companionship? Will they follow each other in 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? What is the cycle of life and death?