During the Yongchang era of the Great Zhao dynasty, Li Qian, son of a general, saw his entire family slaughtered by Prime Minister Zhao Song. He changed his name and joined the frontier forces. After ten years of bloodshed, he rose from an unknown soldier to a fourth-rank general, only to be betrayed by Zhao Song and branded a “surrendered general” of the Western Hu.
Everyone thought he had defected: he married an enemy princess and trained Hu soldiers, yet the point of his blade always faced Chang'an...
