An Embroidered Uniform Guard, Not an Official

Ling Yun, a low-ranking frontier soldier, went from battlefield hero to traitor accused of colluding with the enemy overnight.

His only way to survive was to take up the Xiuchun Saber, a symbol of crime and power.

The Jinyiwei’s imperial prison was bottomless, and the capital’s game of power was rife with deadly traps. He had been a pawn in the hands of the powerful, but amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, he fought his way into becoming a player.

From a ruthless enforcer of the Northern Pacification Office, to a wealthy Jiangnan tycoon, to a military lord who ruled the phantom-haunted seas... One emperor after another took the throne, but he alone remained in the shadow of power.

The world called him the nation’s fangs, the emperor’s attack dog.

But no one knew that he drew his blade only to carve a sliver of dawn for the people of this land through the long, endless night.