Xiang Yu Rises Again in Jiangdong, and Yu Ji Becomes an Empress for the Ages

After the Hegemon kills himself, his surviving followers rescue him. He fakes his death and lies low in Jiangdong, turns Han Xin to his side, destroys Liu Bang and Empress Lü, and searches for his beloved Yu Meiren...

She was seventeen that year, singing Chu songs in a pavilion, when he said, “This woman could be my confidante.”

Two years later, when she was nineteen, he carried her out of the blazing Qin palace and said, “From now on, you belong with me.”

He is a hero of contradictions: aristocratic pride and brutal massacres, deep affection and suspicion, confidence and arrogance, yet at night he buries his head in her lap and sighs.

She is a beauty unlike any other: skilled in song and dance, yet able to discuss the art of war; gentle and sweet, yet bold enough to speak her mind and offer counsel. She loves him with unwavering devotion, yet never gives up her independent spirit.

Their story is about more than that tragic song on the night of Gaixia.

There is redemption amid the flames of the Xianyang Palace, late-night talks before the Feast at Hong Gate, and sword dances they teach each other during their years in Pengcheng. There is the lamp that burns until dawn as she mends his battle robe, the marks he leaves on her skin when they make love in the tent despite his efforts to hold back, and the worry in her eyes as she urges him not to kill Liu Bang...

When the ambush from all sides begins, when Chu songs ring out around them,

she dances with her sword and sings for him one last time...

But their story is only just beginning: lying low, turning Han Xin to their side, rising again in Jiangdong, a new Chu-Han divide, and her becoming the only empress by his side in Weiyang Palace...

Lü Zhi's schemes spread like a hidden web. Jealousy among the harem consorts breeds deadly plots, while the revenge of Liu Bang's old followers strikes from the shadows. With love and the empire both at stake, how will Xiang Yu balance iron resolve with tenderness?

Turn the page and discover how a hero and a beauty find love amid the end of the world, and remain together in an age of peace beyond the divide between Chu and Han.