A maritime legend spanning four centuries, and a time-travel adventure that will change history.
In London in 2023, Li Xiuran, a scholar of history and a business tycoon, discovers a secret that could change the course of history: seven mysterious twin sea charts foretell a momentous transformation across time. Meanwhile, in seventeenth-century Spain, young Carolina de Silva faces the greatest crisis her family has ever known: her father, Navy Minister Alvaro de Silva, has been framed and imprisoned.
The wheels of fate begin to turn. An accident sends Li Xiuran transmigrating to the end of the Ming dynasty, where he crosses paths with Zheng Zhilong’s forces. Amid her family’s crisis, Carolina uncovers a vital clue and becomes the first woman to command a pirate fleet. When these chosen figures of East and West meet on the vast ocean, a history-changing legend begins.
In this thrilling adventure, they will face:
A Spanish naval command riddled with conspiracies
The tangled disputes over maritime power in East Asia
The covetous European powers
The mysterious agents of the Qing dynasty
And their greatest challenge of all: the tide of history itself
This is more than a story of sailing and adventure. It is an epic of conviction, growth, and fate. As Li Xiuran uses his modern-day knowledge to intervene in the history of the late Ming dynasty, and Carolina breaks through the constraints of her time to set sail in the Age of Sail, a startling truth with the power to change the world’s balance of power will come to light.
Behind it all lies a prophecy spanning four hundred years:
“When the twin stars of East and West rise in the sky,
When sea routes of past and present converge,
A new ruler of the seas shall rise,
And the wheel of fate shall begin to turn...”
