After Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, he was haunted by nightmares every night.
In the dream, he returned to the streets of Handan and was still the hostage of Zhao who allowed others to bully him.
When the alchemist Xu Fu offered the elixir of immortality, the officials remonstrated: "This is false!"
The First Emperor drew his sword and beheaded his admonishing officials: "Anyone who blocks my immortality will die!"
He watched with his own eyes as the prisoner on death row who tested the drug turned into bones in pain, but he still swallowed the pills.
Xu Fu bowed and resigned: "I need to visit the fairy mountain again to get the real medicine for your majesty."
The Dongdu fleet disappeared into the vast sea fog.
On the ruins of Jieshi Palace, the First Emperor vomited black blood and looked in the direction where Xu Fu disappeared.
"The world is in my hands, why can't I defeat death?"
