In the final years of the Warring States period, on the first year of King Zheng of Qin’s reign, Cai Ze, Lord Gangcheng, returns late at night from his mission to the State of Yan, where he had been sent by Ying Zheng. An apparently ordinary exchange of pleasantries between ruler and minister brings an obscure piece of history to light.
The famous sword Tai’e, forged jointly by the swordsmiths Ou Yezi and Gan Jiang, passed into the hands of the King of Chu in the late Spring and Autumn period, then vanished without a trace. A century later, it reappears. The events of a former dynasty slowly come to the surface, and a struggle over power and the nation’s fate begins in earnest. Young Daoist Mi Xuan, who claims descent from Qu Yuan, the great official of the State of Chu, is accidentally drawn into this unsolvable “dead end.” “Entering the game,” “trapped in the game,” “breaking the game”: as the past gradually surfaces, a whisper rings out once more: “The famed sword Tai’e, with no evil before its blade...”
One cycle of the ages turns, and all is steeped in a different stillness.
No one knows that the gods’ will was never destruction. It simply never spoke...
Reincarnation... the human heart... it all begins with a single thought...
