A nightmare in the dead of night, and three hundred years of infamy come crashing down.
Wu Sangui, General-in-Chief of Liaodong, wakes in a cold sweat. In his dream, he was the traitor who let the wolves in, the criminal who strangled the Yongli Emperor, and a rebel general who met a grisly end.
Now that he knows his fate, he must defy it and change his destiny! In this life, he will never keep that rat-tail queue. He will be the only player in this chaotic age!
Against foreign foes, he reforges the Guan-Ning Iron Cavalry and refuses to waver, beating Dorgon so badly he questions his own sanity.
At home, he is an "arrogant soldier" who gives the civil officials a headache. At Coal Hill, he even kicks the stool out from under Chongzhen: "Your Majesty can die if you like, but what about all the Han people in this land?"
He takes Chen Yuanyuan before she comes to prominence, protects Princess Changping amid the chaos, and wins over Hong Niangzi, the female general of the rebel army.
This is a redemptive epic set in an age of competing villains, where the question is who is more ruthless and who burns with greater passion.
See how history's greatest "traitor" saves the collapsing realm, buries the rot of the old age, and ushers in eternal peace in the name of A Lament for the Ming!
