The Royal Hunt

On the night Typhoon Yagi made landfall, Su Mu, soaked to the skin, placed a forged document in the hands of Lin Wanqing, the newly appointed female mayor. He had no idea that the document was deadly bait in someone's plot to destroy her, or that risking his life to deliver it would completely change his own insignificant fate.

The tiger-shaped birthmark on his shoulder began to burn and throb, as if a bloodline that had slumbered for five thousand years were awakening. Gradually, he began to “see” things invisible to others: the dark green greed clinging to corrupt officials, the schemes coiled in his colleagues' hearts, and the underground currents of profit flowing behind every document. From the crumbling old buildings collapsing one after another in Jiangzhou's old town to the province's deeply entrenched network of protectors, a hunt had already begun, with the city as its board and human lives as its stakes.

Others thought he had climbed into the female mayor's good graces and become a lucky rising star in politics. Only Su Mu knew the truth: he was carrying the bronze arrowhead left behind by Chiyou into a far more ancient battlefield. Here, noble ideals could scarcely take a step, while dirty tactics might save the people. As he used “stolen funds” to push forward public welfare projects and wielded “leverage” to force unscrupulous businessmen to give up their profits, the line he had once drawn so clearly began to blur amid a struggle of blood and fire.

This is a hunt without gunfire. From a low-ranking clerk to the heights of power, every step is a walk above the abyss. Before he becomes prey, he must learn to become the ultimate hunter.

The Hunt for the Nation is a hard-hitting work of realism that combines political power plays with the secrets of ancient totems. It tells the bloody tale of an ordinary man who, after awakening extraordinary abilities, tears through the darkness of a world ruled by its most sinister laws and ultimately takes command of the nation's most sacred power.