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If the bow string is stretched to the extreme, it will either shoot out the arrow or kill itself. --- Lu Zhao, the son of a string craftsman from a border town, was involved in the flesh-and-blood millstone called "Signing Army" after his father died in a strange "enemy attack". In the Huwei camp, the bow strings are rotten and the blades are rusty, but only human life is consumed the fastest. He thought the enemy was only outside the wall, but he gradually discovered that the "power" of this empire was based on a secret chain - military meritorious service required war to maintain power, civil servants and eunuchs relied on logistics to enrich themselves, and royal relatives made profits from smuggling and intelligence. War has become a "business" that everyone operates tacitly. From the corpse mountain at the frontier to the banquet in the capital, from the sound of the crossbow to the code words in the court, Lu Zhao was like a craftsman calibrating a bowstring, measuring the depth of the dynasty's decay bit by bit. When he finally gets to the core of the truth, what he faces is not a treacherous minister, but a giant web of interests in which everyone benefits and will eventually be strangled. The emperor is a puppet, the court is a stage, and the wars on the frontier are just numbers jumping on the ledger. So, this man who grew up holding a bow string decided to do the simplest and craziest thing - Break the string and recast the bow. ---