The Immortal Knot of Chang'an

This book is a serious literary work attempting to engage with history and suffering. The story begins during a famine at the turn of the Western and Eastern Han dynasties, where several surviving teenagers take very different paths. One, driven by a dream, becomes an undying blade. Another, spurred by a spit, seeks to place humanity within the Heavenly Way. Yet another becomes a butcher, tirelessly searching for his wife and child in a besieged city... Between the male and female leads' fifteen-year gaze lie imperial power, war, and the pain and guilt of losing loved ones. Beneath the immortal's skin is unspeakable suffering. Under the title of the 'disaster star princess' is the obsession with sanctity lost to authority. This is a narrative about 'humanity.' In times of chaos, under the combined siege of Heaven's Way and the Human Way, how can one spend fifteen years keeping a promise, meeting a gaze, embarking on a journey to see, brewing a jar of 'non-biting' wine... and finally uttering 'it doesn't hurt anymore'?