Beneath Kunlun, I wagered my life against the First Emperor. Beneath the star chart, she turned her hair white for me.
Archaeologist Lin Mu touched a thousand-year-old frozen corpse and was thrown into Qin Shi Huang's deadly expedition. According to the historical records, no one from this expedition ever returned.
Everyone else was cannon fodder. He was the sacrifice. His only chance to survive was A Chang, a Qiang woman shackled in chains. The First Emperor had personally named her the “key,” and history's most miserable tool.
She secretly slipped him a scroll bearing a star chart. “If you want to live, come with me.”
Lin Mu thought they were just working together to escape, unaware that she would sacrifice her long black hair to open a path to life for him. He thought he could return to the modern world once the mission was over, unaware that she would wait for him in the imperial palace for forty years, her hair turning white.
When the truth of history and the secret of her birth came to light at once
The First Emperor drew his sword. “This woman is of my blood.”
Lin Mu stepped in front of her. “Now, she is my wife.”
The star chart reversed, and a gateway through time and space opened. On the other side stood their daughter, from two thousand years in the future.
This time, for the woman he loved, he would wager his life against the First Emperor in a game that defied fate itself.
Let Kunlun bear witness. This vow will never die.
