The Story of Liu Bingyi: A Scholar's Unorthodox Strategy to Pacify the Western Regions

Caught in the Witchcraft Scourge, the Wei clan was slaughtered, and Liu Bingyi, still an infant in swaddling clothes, became the youngest death-row prisoner in history. He crawled out of a pile of corpses and grew like a wild weed among the common folk.

At his lowest point, he met a young woman named Xu Pingjun. He promised her, “I have nothing, but I will never let you down.”

At eighteen, he rose from commoner to emperor and ushered in the “Zhaoxuan Restoration.”

He lamented, “The golden age is everything I wished for, yet one person is missing.”