Shadow of Two Souls: From the Start, I Perform Open-Chest Surgery on the Yongle Emperor

On a freezing night in the twenty-second year of the Yongle era of the Ming Dynasty, at Yumu River, a poisoned dagger pierced Zhu Di’s chest inside the imperial tent where his life hung by a thread. The assassin was his sharpest hound, the Black Eagle Thousand-Household Commander, Zhu Xuanying!

Yet at the instant the emperor’s scorching blood splashed across his face, the soul occupying that cold body belonged to Zhou Chuxin, a surgeon from the modern age. There was no time for fear. A lethal threat was already upon him! The poisoned blade of Chen Zhen, his former mentor and the leader of the imperial guards, tore through the tent. He swore to cleanse the emperor’s death with the blood of the traitor!

“Two souls split the sun and moon!” This was not merely a prophecy of a blood curse, but the opening act of an ultimate revenge against a decaying imperial regime!

The words “Patricide” that he wrote in the emperor’s blood would ultimately become the wedge that split an entire era apart...