Nan Xi was a student at a nursing school. One day in class, she listened to her history teacher talk about the Beiyang warlords and the great upheaval during the Republic of China era. In the Republic's brief thirty-eight-year history, the world was in turmoil, famous figures emerged one after another, and the stars shone brightly. It was a truly fascinating period, one that produced generation after generation of historical warlords...