In 258 BC, nine-year-old Li Fei woke up in a slave cart, sold to the residence for hostages.
The baby in the household, just over a year old, was named Ying Zheng. Twenty years later, he would be the first to write the two characters for "emperor" into the history books.
He had no System, no golden finger, just the well-worn Records of the Grand Historian he had memorized: who would flee by night, when the city would be besieged, which year a king would die, and when the world would fall.
History says he survived, at the cost of being hunted in Handan for eight years.
This time, he would stay by his side.
When the future First Emperor rules the world, will he still remember the slave who held him through the snowstorm?
