He unified the six countries, but could not unify his own desires.
Qin Shihuang's ambitions are not limited to the human world - he wants to rule the underworld after death, unify Yin and Yang after resurrection, and make the Qin Dynasty last forever. At the foot of Lishan Mountain, 700,000 prisoners are building an underground palace that transcends the times: mercury is the river, the stars are the top, and the twelve golden people are sleeping and waiting to wake up.
Zhao Lie, a descendant of Zhao craftsmen who was imprisoned in the underground palace, just wanted to survive. But he witnessed the "human figurine production line" of living people sealing pottery, cracked the trap of the Bronze Chariot and Horse Army, and discovered the shocking secret deep in the underground palace - this is not a mausoleum, but a machine that can make the soul live forever.
At the same time, the strangulation of desires in the palace never stopped: Queen Mother Zhao Ji supported her male doting Lao Ai for lust and power, her father-in-law Lu Buwei bet the family's lives on "rare things to live in", Prime Minister Li Si struggled between Legalist ideals and self-preservation, and eunuch Zhao Gao endured for decades just to destroy the Qin Dynasty. Qin Shihuang himself, in the name of "great unification", included the world, all nations, and even the universe in his devouring list.
When the Night of Five Stars connects, the Gate to the Ruins opens beneath the Lishan Mountain, and Qin Shihuang injects divine liquid to transform into a demigod. Zhao Lie must answer a question: Faced with an emperor whose desires are so great that he wants to devour everything, should an ordinary person choose to become a spare part, or risk his life to prove that some things - the human heart, memory, freedom - can never be unified?
A legend of the Qin Dynasty with archaeological discoveries as its bones, historical records as its flesh, and fantasy imagination as its wings. About desire, about price, about every soul that is crushed but refuses to disappear.
