In the waning years of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Yin Chou, the orphaned descendant of Guo Rong, endured the massacre of his family, the wet nurse who gave up her own child to save him, and thirteen years of training on Mount Shu. At twenty, he descended the mountain during the Chenqiao Mutiny and entered Bianjing. He lay low at court as a strategist, secretly protecting the young ruler Guo Zongxun and repeatedly plotting to eliminate Zhao Kuangyin. But with each clash, he witnessed Zhao Kuangyin’s statesmanship and his success in bringing peace to the people amid a chaotic age. At last, he let go of his family’s blood feud and his dream of restoring the dynasty, finding his own place in a world at war.
