Across the Warring States: Schemes and Strange Tales

Amid the flames of the Warring States era, a bronze fragment grows hot in Su Qin's arms, revealing a face seven parts like his own: the shadow of the Jiuyuan organization, stirring the game of the Seven Warring States with supernatural forces.

Zhang Yi's sophistry can corrode the mind, but each time he uses it, he loses a piece of his memory. The words “Protect Su” on a bamboo slip have long since faded. Zhao Yan's wolf-fang pendant suppresses his Xiongnu bloodline, while the blades of the monster-hunting corps reveal the beastly nature struggling in his eyes. The blind musician A Li's bone flute can summon souls, yet he coughs blood and loses his memory when describing the true face of Jiuyuan's leader.

When the schemes of alliances and diplomacy collide with chaos that devours time and space, and the fragments combine to reveal the prophecy “When the cauldron sounds, the world will end,” Su Qin finally understands: the futures he has glimpsed may be the cage Jiuyuan has fashioned just for him. The key to breaking the deadlock lies in Zhang Yi's lost memories, Zhao Yan's boiling blood, and the scar A Li dares not speak of, and also in the half of the bronze fragment he shares with his shadow.

Will he become the Chosen of the Cauldron who ends the age of chaos, or a sacrifice to remake the world? This desperate gamble spanning humans, monsters, and time and space has only just begun.