Nightfall

Description

This is a touching, admirable, laughable, and lovable history of a grassroots rise to power. It follows the journey of an optimistic young man who would rather have something than nothing when it comes to material demands. In the back hills of the Academy, his bewildered voice echoes for eternity: 'I would rather suffer eternal damnation than seek liberation from the sages?' In the first year of the Tianqi era, strange phenomena descended upon the wilderness, gathering all the World Walkers from various sects, yet none could discern the reason. Meanwhile, in the Tang Empire's capital, Chang'an, General Xuanwei was executed along with his entire family for colluding with an enemy state... In the thirteenth year of the Tianqi era, the northwestern border city, Wei City, received an unexpected visitor and an unexpected caravan. Ning Que, an orphan without parents, was recommended as the guide to lead the caravan through the Min Mountains to the capital. For Ning Que, who had always hoped to return to the capital and enter the Academy, this should have been an ideal assignment. But upon seeing the arrow holes on the carriage and comparing them to recent major events on the grasslands, Ning Que knew that this was, in fact, a perilous journey where survival was slim... The lazy yet deadly Ning Que, along with his simple and honest young maidservant Sang Sang—this peculiar pair of master and servant, the young man and the girl, step into the turbulent Chang'an, treading a path of blood and wind...