The fourteenth year of Orthodoxy, the eve of the Tumubao Incident.
A tampered border defense map, half a million troops are about to die.
A blood-stained jade jade with missing corners, the sixth-grade leader Yang Jichuan fell into the arms of Jinyiwei Xiaoqi Shen Yan, leaving his last words: "The military map... Fake... Ola..."
Undercurrents surged in the capital, the eunuch king was gaining power, and Yu Qian, the minister of the Ministry of War, was reprimanded repeatedly. Shen Yan could have pretended to be deaf and mute, but the jade bracelet and the eyes of the dying man dragged him step by step into a shocking conspiracy that swept the court, the border town, and the hearts of the people.
From the dark alleys of the capital to the isolated city of Dushikou, from the hidden blade of the Jin Yiwei to the inheritor of Shouzhuo, he carries nine red ropes and nine lives on his back, walking a bloody path between loyalty and conscience, survival and morality.
When the truth was revealed, he realized that what he had been chasing for so long was just a path that had been set long ago——
Who is that "person who has been waiting for you for a long time"?
