During the Hongwu era, Yuan forces swept south. Jiang Fan crawled out of a pile of corpses, carrying an injured soldier he didn't recognize on his back.
He didn't know who he was. He only knew that whenever the half-jade pendant on his chest grew hot, someone would die. With his fighting skills, medical expertise, and knack for reading people, he rose from a homeless refugee with no known past to the ranks of the army, catching the attention of the powerful figure in Yingtian.
Everyone thought he was an orphan. Only he himself... couldn't even decide whether he should claim the word “orphan.”
