The Conqueror Is Dead, and Three Thousand Chu Soldiers Have Made Me Their King

The Hegemon is dead. By the banks of the Wu River, Western Chu has fallen.

Wang Mo, a history student at Peking University, accidentally transmigrates to the end of the Chu-Han contention. When he wakes, he has become Xiang Zhuang, a subordinate of Xiang Yu.

By then, Xiang Yu has already taken his own life by the Wu River. Yu Ji is still alive, and three thousand Chu soldiers are surrounded on all sides by hundreds of thousands of Han troops.

Everyone believes Chu is finished.

But Wang Mo knows this is not the end.

Liu Bang will unite the realm, Han Xin will sweep aside the other lords, and Peng Yue and Ying Bu will rise one after another. Meanwhile, Western Chu, once so mighty, will disappear forever into the river of history.

Faced with certain ruin, Wang Mo refuses to surrender.

He will keep all three thousand of them alive.

With no provisions, he will seize supplies.

With no city to defend, he will make the mountains and rivers his fortress.

When the Han army hunts them down, he will avoid their strengths and strike their weaknesses. When they seal off the roads, he will launch raids across a thousand miles.

Crossing rivers, going undercover, luring the enemy, setting ambushes: time and again, he carves a path to survival from seemingly hopeless situations.

But when the three thousand Chu soldiers gather once more and the horns of Chu sound across the land again, Wang Mo realizes that he has embarked on a path utterly unlike the one history recorded.

The history he once knew is slipping out of control, bit by bit.

And Liu Bang and Han Xin, once towering figures above all others, have finally turned their attention to a man history was supposed to forget.

The Hegemon is dead.

But the spirit of Chu lives on.

In this life, Xiang Zhuang will do more than survive.

He will make the three thousand Chu soldiers rise again.

And he will make the world know:

Buried by the Wu River was Xiang Yu.

Not Western Chu.