At twenty-eight, Jiang Xun has watched three startups fail in a row. Buried under a million yuan in debt and reduced to delivering takeout, he hits rock bottom on a rainy night, just as the spiritual qi revival descends upon the world.
As people scramble to claim the heroic spirits of history's greatest victors, a security guard binds with Zhang Fei and a butcher with Fan Kuai. The entire population is swept into the craze to become Spirit Binders, but Jiang Xun unexpectedly awakens his exclusive golden finger, the [Register of Fallen Heroes]. He forges an extraordinary soul resonance with Xiang Yu, who took his own life at the Wu River, and sets out on a path of rising from defeat that belongs to him alone.
He unlocks dungeons depicting the final moments of the defeated, empathizing with and accepting the heroes' regrets and obsessions. He breaks the ironclad rule that “one person may bind with only one heroic spirit,” bringing countless heroes forgotten by history under his command: Xiang Yu, Yue Fei, Han Xin, Yuan Chonghuan, Chongzhen, and more.
He forms an alliance of the defeated, ventures into the secret realms of the Nine Provinces, and fights in the battle to claim the Nine Tripods. At last, he faces his twin brother, the ultimate boss, and uses compassion to resolve a feud that has lasted a thousand years. He declares to the world: the defeated, too, can bask in glory!
