The Unending Thirst

A bastard son, cast out by his wealthy father near Dunhuang, returns after twenty years disguised as a merchant. Haunted by his mother’s death, he exploits a legal precedent—the famous case of Hanling returning illicit goods—to strip his father’s family of land, trade, and honor. But the deeper he sinks into vengeance, the more he realizes that the hollow hunger inside him can never be filled, except by blood and sand.