The Dragon's Song Across the Vast Sea, Ruling the Nine Provinces

The third prince of the Great Yan Dynasty, Huangfu Jingzhao, has always presented himself as frail and bookish, barely noticed at court. When war flares again on the northern frontier and the kingdom teeters on the brink, his two elder brothers vie for power, and an imperial edict sends him to a remote border town on the edge of the wilderness. Everyone believes it is an exile, a sentence to fend for himself. But for Huangfu Jingzhao, this is the beginning of his emergence from obscurity and his rise to shake the world. He will muster troops amid the wasteland and find a path to victory from the brink of disaster, proving to the world what a true ruler is and what it means to build an empire that unites all under heaven.