Blood Chess of the Crumbling Tang

Name: Blood Chess of the Crumbling Tang
Author: Lark Sweet Potato

残唐血棋

by Lark Sweet Potato (百灵番薯)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 863k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical & Ancient
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In 907 AD, Zhu Wen murdered the emperor in the palace at Luoyang. The last ember of the three-hundred-year Tang dynasty went out in a pool of blood at Baima Station. These were the darkest fifty-four years in Chinese history. Human flesh was military rations, and exchanging children to eat was commonplace. Emperors came and went like lanterns on a revolving stage, generals took pleasure in killing, and scholars became spirits beneath the blades. Fathers and sons slaughtered one another, brothers turned against each other, husbands and wives ate each other. Morality collapsed, and humanity was extinguished. It was an age when a person was worth less than a dog, when simply staying alive was the greatest fortune one could have. Su Chen, the foremost modern scholar of Five Dynasties history, was restoring the bloodstained fragment of the Old History of the Five Dynasties deep in the Forbidden City one night when the book’s countless vengeful spirits dragged him into this hell. He saw Zhu Wen chop living people into mincemeat at a banquet and serve it to his ministers as a drinking snack. He saw Li Cunxu watch his dynasty fall while wearing theatrical costume on a stage. He saw Shi Jingtang kneel before the Khitan emperor, call himself the “Son Emperor,” and cede the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. He saw Chai Rong die coughing blood during his northern campaign, leaving behind endless regret. He knew the date of every massacre, the cause of every rebellion, the weakness of every warlord, and the fate of every dynasty. While everyone else slaughtered each other in a frenzy for power and treated human lives like weeds, Su Chen stood atop mountains of corpses and seas of blood, gently moving the first bloodstained piece on the board. In this game, blood was the ink, bones were the pieces, and the realm was the board. Lose, and he would face eternal ruin. Win, and peace would reign beneath heaven. “I, Su Chen, pledge my blood and soul to this cause. With this bloodstained chess game of the fallen Tang, I will restore a world of light and order!”

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