No Mercy for Others

The king ordered the Western Expedition and fought for twenty years. The beacon fire lasts for a long night, and the mountains and rivers are covered with iron hoofs. Twenty-one years of battle, the fruits of victory were carved with swords, and the causes of defeat were buried with flesh and blood. When civilization and barbarism collide, invasion and resistance intertwine, all glory, sorrow, right and wrong, merge into the long river of history. In this torrent, there are no pure heroes and no absolute devils. When survival and morality are placed at two ends of the balance, who can be forgiven? This is a story about conquest and integration, destruction and rebirth. It is also an elegy about how specific people struggle to survive, make choices and bear burdens under the grand narrative.