The Merchant's Path in Foreign Lands: A Chronicle of Ten Kingdoms

From the late Qing dynasty to the years of the War of Resistance, five decades of blood and fire forge three lone warriors from Fujian, Guangdong, and Zhejiang, along with their children. Armed with compasses, waist tokens, and embroidery needles, they carve out a bloody path between colonial forces and local powers. When the thick smoke from opium ships shrouds the moonlight over the Chao Phraya River, and the crack of a shattered jade thumb ring mingles with the glint of Hongmen blades, they use Chinese ingenuity and courage to write a legend across the lands of the ten ASEAN nations. Business rivalries, political schemes, foreign power struggles, love and hatred: witness this century-spanning contest for supremacy in Nanyang, as blood and tears are forged into glory, etching an enduring legend of Chinese merchants into the river of history!