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The Return from the Dead

Words: 2987 · Source Novel:: The Petty Seed

In 1793, forty years after his public execution was announced, an elderly Zhu Sizao secretly returns to Suzhou under a false identity, having been exiled rather than killed. He finds his ancestral home occupied by strangers and his family line shattered. A chance encounter with a dying former servant confirms that his downfall was no accident but a deliberate plot, igniting a cold, methodical fire within him to unearth every hand that had pushed him into the abyss.