In the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shi Huang's reign, at Shaqiu.
Zhao Gao and Li Si conspire to alter the imperial edict and order Prince Fusu to die.
Everyone assumes the benevolent Fusu will obediently take his own life.
But this time, he doesn't.
Three days later, Zhao Gao is executed. Seven months later, the Daze Village uprising erupts, and Zhou Wen's hundred-thousand-strong army marches straight for Xianyang.
Instead of relying on convicts from Mount Li, Fusu puts two young men to use: one named Han Xin, the other Chen Ping.
With the Favorable Enfeoffment Edict, the beginnings of the imperial examinations, and cavalry and chariots working in concert, his iron army crushes the Xiongnu royal court. There is no collapse under a second emperor, no Chu-Han contention. There is only a century-long golden age under Fusu.
But what Fusu fears most is not Xiang Yu's Chu army or Liu Bang's schemes.
It's that he is becoming more and more like his father, the man who ruled the realm through harsh laws and brutal punishments.
He wins the people's hearts through benevolence and secures the future through calculation.
But there is one question he doesn't dare ask himself: Am I truly a wise ruler, or just another tyrant?
[Click to read] In the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shi Huang's reign, Fusu survives.
