Secret Records of the Mortal Realm

He was no saint by nature. He was Yu the Great, the “son of a disgraced minister,” born with dragon scales on his forehead. He subdued both floods and people. He recruited demons as generals and laid out the Nine Provinces as a game board. When the Nine Tripod Cauldrons, symbols of imperial power, were forged from flesh and blood, they carried not only supreme glory but also a blood-soaked curse. Here, myth ends and political intrigue begins. Heroes, wives, and sons all struggle and are twisted by the currents of power and desire.

This is a dark epic, a history forgotten by the official record, that overturns everything you thought you knew about the beginnings of the Xia dynasty.