Zhao Gao: Half Ghost, Half Human

"Zhao Gao: Half Ghost, Half Human" is 100,000 words long. Taking Zhao Gao of the Qin Dynasty as the protagonist, it breaks the traditional "treacherous official" narrative and restores his complicated life from a prisoner in the hidden palace to a gravedigger of the empire. Ten-year-old Zhao Gao suffered humiliation in Xianyang Hidden Palace. His father died in the battle of Qin to destroy Zhao. His mother Zhao Ji made a living by weaving brocade, but she was still bullied by the powerful. Carrying the fragments of "Zhao Family" and his obsession with the Zhao family blood, Zhao Gao secretly studied the law and practiced sword skills. With his twin abilities of "holding a pen to copy laws and holding a sword to practice martial arts", he was promoted into the field of power by Cheng Miao, the commander of Zhongche Mansion. He assisted Hu Hai, tamed the young master with "legal chess", eliminated dissidents by "turning a deer into a horse", overthrew Li Si, killed the Meng brothers, and gradually controlled the power of the Qin Dynasty. However, the erosion of power and Zhao's obsession with revenge turned him from a young man who "wanted the people at the bottom to become literate" to a powerful official who "used Qin's methods to destroy Qin". During the Shaqiu conspiracy, he tampered with the imperial edict and killed Hu Hai, but was eventually killed by Ziying's trap. The novel uses the tragedy of Zhao Gao to expose the cruelty of out-of-control power under the Qin system - when laws are reduced to tools and dignity is trampled wantonly, individual struggles will eventually become sacrifices to the system.