Sailing Through a Sea of Misery

Multiple factions vying for power in the late Ming + Embroidered Uniform Guard + battlefield + imperial court

(The female lead is there if you want her, and absent if you don’t.)

Also known as:

(Late Ming: A Hound of the Court? Call Me Captain!)

(Late Ming Embroidered Uniform Guard: One Less Point of Reason, One Hundred More Points of Damage!)

(Late Ming: Don’t Call Me Captain)

(Late Ming Embroidered Uniform Guard: My Plans Failed, So It Must Be Heaven’s Will!)

(Embroidered Uniform Guard: I’m Good by Nature, and Truly Don’t Like Killing!)

(There’s court intrigue and battlefield strategy, with a different focus at every stage.)

Heaven creates all things to nourish mankind, yet mankind has nothing to offer in return.

The Embroidered Uniform Guard are the court’s hunting dogs. I’m the hawk. They’re just a pack of hounds.

Bai Cangsheng was the last Embroidered Uniform Guard of the Great Ming.

He had always been a loner.

But he had seen Li Zicheng, hunted down Zhang Xianzhong, and protected the Chongzhen Emperor.

He stood in the pass, blocking a horde of Manchus and daring them to advance no farther.

With the blade in his hand, he proved to the world that offense could also be defense.

At last!

The Jianzhou Jurchens surrounded him on every side!

“Come and kill me!”

With a spear in hand instead of an embroidered spring saber, he carved a bloody path through thousands of Jianzhou Jurchens.