Warring States: Ballad of a Troubled Age

War drums sound, and chaos descends.

In the year 167, the four kingdoms of Dongzhou, Southern Chu, Western Jing, and Northern Yue stand in a fragile balance as war rages across the land and everyone lives in fear.

Twelve years ago, she was the daughter of a guardian general. She tied up her hair, donned armor, and fought alongside her father to protect the peace.

Twelve years later, she is a fisherwoman who wants nothing to do with the world. She thought she would live a peaceful, uneventful life, but everything changed the moment she saved him. All the truths deliberately buried in the past began to surface.

Her mother once said that the Mu family had shed too much blood. She named her two daughters Mu Shan and Mu Ren, hoping they would live their lives doing good and practicing benevolence. But in the end, she failed to honor her mother’s wish. She was destined never to be a good person in this life.

If she cannot be a good person in this life, why not become a villain in the eyes of others? She asks only to do right by the 106 members of the Mu family and the 37,000 soldiers of the Mu army. Yet on her path to villainy, she meets him. Together, they traverse the rise and fall of a grand age and compose a stirring tale.