Three Kingdoms: The Scarlet Flame and the Lost Red Hare

…Winter, the thirteenth year of Jian'an. War clouds gathered over Red Cliffs, but a bizarre mystery shook the foundations of the allied forces: the fiery-red Red Hare vanished without a trace on the very night Cao Cao's army drew near.

This was no ordinary theft. Beside the stables, Guan Yu, Red Hare's last master, found a token belonging to the late villain Dong Zhuo. Meanwhile, an eerie prophecy began circulating through Cao Cao's naval encampment: “When Red Hare appears, Red Cliffs will burn.” Everything pointed to a truth someone had deliberately buried: Red Hare was no ordinary steed. It was the “essence of fire virtue,” scattered into the mortal realm as the Han dynasty's dragon energy waned. Whoever possessed it could unleash the power of heaven and earth.

Zhuge Liang saw what was coming. He knew that if Red Hare fell into Cao Cao's hands, its “fire virtue” would be used to forge a northern campaign route that never froze, leaving nothing to stop him from unifying the realm. But if Zhou Yu of Eastern Wu obtained it, he would not hesitate to burn the north with the fiercest flames, at the cost of turning thousands of miles of land into scorched earth. On the eve of the conflagration, a covert struggle over the fate of the realm quietly began. The search for the horse was also a fight to claim the right to shape the future.

Hooves pounded, shadows shifted. When the east wind finally swept the river mist away, people saw the magnificent steed standing alone atop the flames. Its neigh would determine the course of an era, and the final fate of three men's ambitions, loyalty, and deepest affections...