The Dragon Court Through the Ages

In the Great Yin Dynasty, the entire Northern Marquis Manor is executed. On the night of the execution, the heir, Pei Zhaoye, receives a scroll containing a prophecy of the dynasty's fall: in three days, a great fire will break out in the imperial prison; in seven days, the frontier army will rebel; in one year, war will engulf the Nine Provinces.

The edict contains nine prophecies. They can be rewritten, but the price is his most precious memories.

To save his younger sister, he storms the execution ground, seizes the military tally, and defends a lone city, leading three hundred prisoners to fight their way out of a dead end. From the son of a traitor to the founding emperor who makes every lord in the land bow, he triumphs over powerful ministers, warlords, and fate itself.

Until the day of his coronation, when he sees the final line:

The tenth ruler to bring about the fall of a dynasty is none other than himself.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Please do not imitate.