Name: Venture To The West 西域列王纪 Raw Link: https://wenxue.iqiyi.com/book/detail-18l2h998ql.html?origin=5 Why It Should Get Picked Up: This is a best-seller It's based on a real period of history It's gonna be adapted as a drama This presents historical events that inspired famous Journey To The West Description : In "Journey to the West", the ninety nine trials experienced by Tang Seng and his disciple are actually eighty-one mystery cases. These cases were closely intertwined, representing all types of crimes in the world, each of these point to the depths of the human's greed, selfishness, vice. In the winter moon of the third year of the reign of Zhenguan, a thin horse carrying a monk staggered to the edge of the desert. Xuanzang had finally arrived to the Western Regions. At this time, the Western Regions were in turmoil and unstable. The powerful Persian Empire had suffered a terrible besiegement by Byzantium and the Turks, attracting wolves from everywhere in the Western Regions. At this critical time, Persia did not hesitate to trade the secret treasure "David King Bottle" in exchange of Great Tang's support. At the startof the Silk Road, Xuanzang met his second disciple, Qu Zhi Sheng, the Prince of Gaochang. As the inspiration of "Zhu Bajie" in Journey to the West, Qu Zhi Sheng had already fallen deeply in love with the princess of the enemy country, gradually losing his mind and unexpectedly intercepted the Persian treasure to fulfill his long-time wish. Involved in this discord, Xuanzang had absolutely no idea that his presence was a chess move from the Tang Dynasty, in hope to plunge the continent in turmoil. For a time, Great Tang, Turkey, Persia, Karasah , Gaochang and many other forces converged together, and crimes of robbery, revenge, and treason, all kind of crimes were commited one after another, intertwined together, being causally linked toegther... In the vast desert, a conspiracy that subverts the pattern of the Western Regions is being strangely played on the Silk Road.