Snow Fills the Bow and Blade

Twelve years ago, the Xuehe Tang was wiped out overnight. Gu Changfeng, sect leader of the Lingyun Sword Sect, pulled a baby from the flames, took him in as a disciple, and named him Shen Yan. At seventeen, a case of missing escort silver dragged him down the mountain. In a broken temple on a snowy night, he met Su Wan, who had come from the Yaowang Valley. She handed him her last piece of dry rations—and as she did, there was a very soft sound from inside her sleeve. From then on the two traveled together, saying scarcely a word. And then every account he uncovered fell back on his own head. His nameplate was taken back by his sect, and he became a man to be seized on sight; on the day the two halves of the jade pendant came together, he learned that he was the orphan of the Xuehe Tang's master, and that she was the daughter of the Su family—what the Su family had done fifteen years ago, he would have no answer to until he finished copying out forty-one names. When word came down from the mountain, he was counting the forty-first name. After that he never returned to Tiandu Peak. In the Yaowang Valley she saved him, and went blind. Her father wanted to trade her for something, and he publicly cut all ties with her. The jianghu wanted him to be the greatest under heaven; he insisted on saving the very people who had been hunting him down the day before. Snow fills the bow and blade. The hand he grips his sword with is already ruined, but he still walks on. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Snow Fills the Bow and Blade — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠