Yang Yu wakes up to find himself a little beggar in Luoshui County, a border town in the Great Feng Empire, with a face uncannily like that of the young emperor rumored to have been captured.
He had hoped to scrape by in a chaotic age, but gets swept into the tangled conflicts among the Empress Dowager, the border generals, and the Xiongnu. To stay alive, he is forced to become the emperor’s “double,” navigating court conspiracies and the fires of war on the frontier.
From a prisoner at Heishui Stockade to an “attendant” at Yannan Pass, from rallying troops on the battlefield to venturing alone into the wolves’ den as an envoy, his face is both a shield and a death sentence.
When the impostor and the true emperor are trapped together in a besieged city, with corrupt eunuchs pressing for a coup within and powerful enemies closing in from without, food gone and all hope of reinforcements lost, Yang Yu holds the late emperor’s secret decree. Faced with a desperate choice, will he remain a pawn to be discarded at any moment, or overturn the board of this chaotic age and live out his own destiny?
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