East Palace Night Watchman

In the 16th year of Yongheng's reign, on Lantern Festival night, Shen Yixiu, the chief minister of the cabinet, died suddenly of poisoning. The scene was as clean as water. Behind an ajar door lies the bottomless political abyss of the empire. On the dragon throne, the emperor is practicing Taoism and seeking immortality; in the court, the vassal kings and powerful officials are eyeing him; at the border, the Huru cavalry are ready to attack. Prince Ji Mingche was forced to step onto the stage at the most dangerous moment for the empire. Cheng Shui Ling, who came from the south of the Yangtze River, was the only clue left by the deceased, but she was involved in a shocking corruption that shook the country. Is a perfectly timed border beacon a coincidence of invasion by a foreign enemy, or a conspiracy to invite you in? Leaving Beijing and going south is a skill to break the situation, and it is also a dangerous move to risk death. In this chessboard where the world is a chessboard, is he a chess piece or a chess player? When the layers of fog were lifted, Ji Mingche discovered that what he had to fight was not just a certain political opponent, but the entire rotten order. This is a war fought by one person against the entire era.