Reborn into a new life, Ying Zheng, the emperor for the ages, becomes Wu Dalang, the man who sells flatbread in Yanggu County.
Poison waits by his pillow, an adulterer lurks outside the window, and the killing has begun.
But what is the point of slaughtering a mere county? Is that really the ambition of an emperor?
I once treated the world as a chessboard and swept away the Six States. Today, in this Song Dynasty, the so-called heroes of the martial world and the so-called officials of the court are, in my eyes, nothing more than pieces in a more chaotic game.
