When a dynasty’s fortune becomes a game of strategy, every cycle is an execution of civilization.
Once every hundred years, the “Abyss of Eroding Time” drags the Great Sheng Dynasty into a thousand-day loop. Participants retain their memories but gradually lose their minds, and only by gathering the “Seven Keys of Heaven’s Secrets” can they break the deadlock. Xiao Yi, former chief of the Office of Celestial Secrets, is forced to become the “Chosen One.” He struggles to survive amid a blood edict in the imperial mausoleum, a deadly trap in the Formless Pavilion, and the rivalries of seven kingdoms. He must wield political intrigue as a blade and cut through the lies about civilization woven by the observers:
“All the merits and faults of a thousand years are nothing but an endgame written by the victors.”
