Thirty-five years old, from the northern frontier army. He enlisted at sixteen and commanded troops by nineteen, a hardline general who clawed his way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood. His wife died of illness five years ago. On her deathbed, she made him promise “never again to kill the innocent indiscriminately.” The court sends him south to take control of Jiangzhou because he is the only man Zhou Huaijin fears.
