Women of Wind and Rain Mountain

The novel spans three periods: the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, and modern times. During the late Qing Dynasty, a major case of robbery and murder on the ancient post road of Nüren Mountain became an unsolved mystery, with the culprit elusive. During the Republic of China era, continuous banditry in the Nüren Mountain area, struggles for dominance among local forces, and armed clashes between local warlords left the people around Nüren Mountain suffering greatly. During the eight-year War of Resistance, the patriotic devotion of the people of Nüren Mountain was truly moving. On the eve of liberation, the turbulence of the military and political situation in western Hunan witnessed the tottering of the reactionary forces. The ugly spectacle of the National Assembly election in Nüren Mountain during the chaotic times revealed the corruption of the reactionary forces. The life-and-death struggle between the Western Hunan Liberation Advance Column and the reactionary forces' Provisional Salvation Army at Nüren Mountain demonstrated that the revolutionary armed forces' transformation of the world was inevitable. From the late Qing Dynasty to modern times, Nüren Mountain has always staged the myriad aspects of life and the grudges and passions of its ordinary people. In real life, good and evil, love and hate, and the beauty and ugliness of human nature are vividly displayed in the people of Nüren Mountain. Through a century and a half of trials and tribulations, the murderer in the major robbery and murder case on the ancient post road of Nüren Mountain during the late Qing Dynasty finally emerges during the rise and fall of the fourth branch of the Xia family in Qingshan Village... — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Women of Wind and Rain Mountain — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠