The Ballad of Langya's Beacon Fires
In the final years of Northern Wei, beacon fires across the Six Garrisons engulfed the land. On the night his clan was massacred, eight-year-old Wang Hao, the last surviving child of the Langya Wang clan, hid in a haystack and watched helplessly as all 106 members of his family were slaughtered. He remembered only the clan leader's final, unspoken words: “Carry on.”
Ten years later, having completed his studies under the Ghost Valley master at Yunmeng Mountain, Wang Hao entered a world in turmoil alongside his junior sister, Ji Yao. From leading a rebel army of displaced peasants to commanding a hundred thousand soldiers, from a corner of Hebei to contending for supremacy over the Central Plains, he gradually learned amid bloodshed and political intrigue that personal vengeance could not save the people, and his clan could not endure without peace across the realm.
This is not one man's tale of revenge, but the story of a civilization fighting for survival in a dark age. Witness the last son of Langya as he relights the beacon fires of Chinese unification in this brutal world.
“I want a world where no child ever has to hide trembling in a haystack again.”
Wang Hao
