Shen Zai'an was the illegitimate son of the late Beile Yin Zhibei, discovered only ten years after his father's death. With British warships at the gates, he was forced to knock on Commander Yang Fang's door.
No one believed the fourteen-year-old boy until he produced his jade identity token and exposed, before everyone, the long-buried scandal of the Duke's household.
“Shen Zai'an requests permission to fight!”
He rose to fame overnight, shocking the world.
The court regarded him as a “bastard” who stained the family name, while his birth father's former retainers wanted him dead.
Faced with one deadly threat after another, Shen Zai'an smiled.
He offered brilliant strategies and trained a new army. With a resounding victory at Guangzhou, he became, in everyone's eyes, the hottest potato, and the sharpest blade.
“My lords,” the boy said with a laugh to the followers behind him, standing at the crest of history:
“Saving the nation is only the beginning. Next, it's time for us to give this land of Huaxia a whole new sky.”
