In Spring of the Blade (一瓯春), the women of Xie Mansion do not simply suffer. They calculate, lie, marry, and sometimes die. The story begins with Xie Zhenglun (谢正伦) dead and the household splitting into factions. Hu Wenzhuo (扈文琢) is confined by Xie Shu (谢纾). Concubines fall one by one: some mad, some buried, some […]
