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This book adopts the style of historical novels with cold line drawings, and uses lens language to present the century-old cycle of cause and effect in the Song Dynasty.
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In the ninth year of Kaibao's reign, Beijing was blocked by heavy snow.
The shadow of the candle shakes red, and the sound of the ax cracks the night.
Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin died suddenly, and the country fell into the hands of his younger brother Zhao Guangyi.
Seizing the throne, killing his nephew, and abusing his queen—Taizong's lineage has committed a hundred years of original sins.
God's way is good, but I'm not happy at all.
More than a hundred years later, during the Jingkang Disaster, the two emperors hunted north, and Taizong's immediate branch was slaughtered by the Jin people, almost to the point of extinction.
King Kang Zhaogou was lucky enough to cross south, and Jianyan was revived. However, due to fear, he lost his heirs and was left alone.
On a cold night in the deep palace, Taizu angrily shouted in a dream: "Your ancestor is not right in his position, please return my kingdom as soon as possible!"
There is no successor to be established, branches are withering, people's aspirations are changing, and destiny is darkly changing.
When Zhao Gou was fifty-six years old, he took the initiative to take the Zen position, gave up his relatives, and elected Zhao Xin, the seventh grandson of Taizu.
It's not cowardice or ignorance, but the emperor's coldest, shrewdest and safest ultimate calculation.
A reincarnation of imperial power spanning one hundred and sixty-eight years.
A fateful reckoning hidden deep in official history.
From the beginning of the original sin with the sound of the candle shadow and the axe, to the retribution of Jingkang's residual dream, to the return of heaven's way to Lin'an inner Zen.
The Song Dynasty finally returned to the lineage of Taizu.
The country that was taken away will eventually be returned.
The blood debt owed will be repaid within a hundred years.
