On the night of the First Emperor's death, a young official stole the true edict and was hunted by the entire empire.
In the autumn of the thirty-seventh year of the Qin Dynasty, Emperor Qin Shi Huang died on a sand dune platform on his way back from his fifth eastward tour. The Zhongche Mansion ordered Zhao Gao and Prime Minister Li Simi not to mourn, but instead issued an imperial edict to confer the death of the eldest son, Fusu.
In the airtight side hall of the Sand Dune Palace, when Shen Du, the third-class official, was ordered to sort out the dragon chariot's relics, he pulled out from the secret compartment a true edict covered with a jade seal that passed down the country - to establish Fusu as his heir and Meng Tian to assist the government.
He was originally a little man who just wanted to rehabilitate his late father and make a living in the palace. But with the true edict in hand, he went from being a servant of the emperor to the most wanted criminal in the empire overnight.
