In the troubled times of the Five Dynasties, cities were burned by war, and human lives were as cheap as ants.
During a battle by the Hutuo River, the nameless orphan boy Gray Wa was involved in blood and fire. A ten-year-old child crossed a river with the army, carried corpses, swallowed blood books, carved palm bones, and sacrificed his life to uphold General Wang Qing's last words and loyalty.
He has no name, no surname, no monument, no biography, and not a single word is recorded in official and unofficial histories. Only the scratches on his palms and the cold wind on the Hutuo River were left, proving that he had carried the heaviest faith with the humblest body.
Princes wrote their photos into history, while people like him only turned into a handful of ashes.
But the obsession in the ashes has never really been extinguished.
