Great Qin: From the Start, I Got the Ancestral Dragon to Perform the King of Qin Circles the Pillar

The nineteenth year of King Zheng of Qin.

The Qin army captures Handan, the capital of Zhao. Ying Zheng learns that his true eldest son, Qi, was abandoned and left to wander outside the palace, and that the King of Zhao once nearly had him beheaded.

A three-month search turns up nothing.

A year later, in a small courtyard beside the Gaochi pond.

Zhao Qi reveals the scar on the back of his neck and tells a middle-aged man, "When I was four, the executioner found the gap between the bones in my neck. He nearly chopped my head off."

The middle-aged man's body trembles. He freezes in place. I've found my eldest son.

"My son! Do you want to be King of Qin?"

Are you insane? Recognizing some random kid as your son is one thing, but now you're trying to coax me into fighting the Ancestral Dragon for the throne?

How many heads do you think I've got to spare?

"Speaking of the King of Qin, I know more about him than you do. Before long, when the Yan envoy comes to surrender, the King of Qin will be running around a pillar in Zhangtai Palace."

"You play the King of Qin, I'll play the Yan envoy. Let's see just how pathetic the King of Qin can look!"

"…"

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Do not imitate.