Mountain Wanderer

Lu Tong spent seven years studying medicine in the mountains, but upon returning home, he found everything had changed.

His eldest sister, a victim of foul play, met a tragic end.
His elder brother, wrongfully imprisoned, languished in dungeons.
His father journeyed to the capital to seek justice, only to meet a watery demise on the road.
His mother, driven to madness overnight, perished in flames.

Lu Tong packed his medical kit and headed to the capital of Jingzhou.

'Debts must be repaid, and lives must be avenged!
'If there's no judge, then I'll be the judge from Hell!'

In the capital, noble families faced successive tragedies,
Commander Pei Yunxing quietly investigated the matter,
And suspicions fell on a young woman from the Renxin Medical Hall.
However...
Before he could find evidence,
The girl made her move against him first.

Smiling Under Lanterns

The bright and cheerful girl opened her heart to her in the night rain that soaked everything, the plum wine sour and biting under the solitary lamp, and she, with boisterous drunken bravado, clapped her on the shoulder and shouted.


"One day, you'll be Chief Court Envoy, and I'll be Vice Director, with our paired swords, we'll rise above them all!"


She stood in a daze, her gaze falling into the distance.


The mist gradually dissipated, revealing a clearer past.


There was a woman with a sallow face amidst the red beauty of flowers, a warm and upright scholar in a fishmonger's stench-filled grass hut, a long-bearded man babbling on and on, a brash woman who, wishing a good Imperial City husband for her daughter, secretly handed over a basket of plums...


They laughed and talked, passing by her side, their commonplaces and old sayings slowly solidifying into delicate, intricate threads, which entangled her, weaving a soft and expansive net over her.


Chapter 238 Farewell_3