In the eighth year of the Qin Dynasty, General Zhao Xuan was deprived of his military power for the crime of "arrogance and excess" and was demoted to a small official in Xianyang Prison.
The God of War of Qin who once swept through six kingdoms and trampled enemy camps, now transcribes case files, inspects prison food every day, and spends his days dealing with a group of cunning old officials in the depths of a cold and damp prison. Everyone thought that this was just an abandoned son who was despised by the king, waiting for the right time to be completely wiped out.
Until a seemingly ordinary draft of border army rations landed on his desk.
There is sufficient food and fodder in the books, the transportation routes are complete, and all the officials handling it have well-documented records. No one in the civil and military circles in the court noticed anything strange, but this "deposed" general smelled the bloody smell of the border from a few lines of fine characters - it was an intuition he had only honed after twenty years of fighting.
He began to investigate secretly, and the deeper he investigated, the more frightened he became.
A grain bill actually led to a shocking chain of corruption that spanned the military and political circles. The top of the chain points directly to Lord Xiangbang, who lives deep in the Nine Palaces.
At the same time, King Qin Yingzheng, who was far away in Xianyang Palace, was quietly wiping a dusty chess piece.
"Zhao Xuan can be a pillar of the country."
What he was waiting for was the day when this chess piece would walk out of prison and stand in the sunshine again.
When the former God of War knocked on the palace door as a civil servant, a bloody storm sweeping across the government and the public had just begun.
