Before Xiang Yu took his own life by the Wu River, he heard a whisper:
“Do you want another chance? Trade for it with the thing you can’t let go of.”
He answered, “I’ll trade.”
When he opened his eyes, he was back on the eve of the Battle of Julu.
He thought he could rewrite the fate of the realm, only to discover that Liu Bang had awakened three days earlier, Han Xin had already been snatched away, and Zhang Liang smiled and told him he was reborn too.
Even Yu Ji was waiting for him to say the words he had left unsaid for a hundred years.
In his first life, he wanted to win the realm.
By his ninety-ninth life, all he wanted was for her to live.
In his hundredth life, he finally learned to wait for someone by the Wu River.
This is not a tale of the Hegemon-King seeking revenge. It is the story of a man who, through a hundred cycles of rebirth, comes to understand the meaning of “I can’t bear to let go.”
