The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City's Fall

It is 1642, the final years of the Ming Dynasty. The scholar Fang Zhiyou loses his mind to grief when his childhood love—the celebrated Yangzhou courtesan Su Lianyan—is found drowned. Convinced that all men are beasts, he numbs himself with wine, his memories shattered. Three years later, drunk and broken, Fang Zhiyou awakens to a nightmare: he is trapped inside Lion Camel Kingdom, the world of his own macabre writings. Demon soldiers have breached the gates. As the city burns with slaughter, pillage, and flame, a man with no will to live finds a reason to survive: a feral young girl called Little Yan, whose face is a ghostly echo of Su Lianyan. He makes a desperate vow—to keep her alive until the massacre ends. As they flee through the charnel house of his own creation, fragments of his past resurface, blurring sanity into madness. But the truth, when it comes, will offer no escape from his destiny...