Alive: Love Gu

During the Yonghe era of the Great Liang dynasty, the realm appeared peaceful, but undercurrents stirred beneath the surface. In the imperial court, the Eastern Depot wielded immense power, the Embroidered Uniform Guard had become its attack dogs, and the princes’ struggle for the throne had reached a fever pitch. In the martial world, the seven great sects each ruled their own territory, with the righteous and the unorthodox clearly divided. Yet in the borderlands between black and white, between court and martial world, a vast and invisible “gray zone” took root. Of all desires, the hardest to satisfy is the desire to live. Lust, ambition, revenge, greed: every desire is just one of countless faces of the desire to survive.