Five-Party Power Game

This is not a story about a hero saving the world. This is a story about how people gradually lose their bottom line in the face of power and occasionally pick up their conscience. No one is the destined protagonist, and no one can have the last laugh. All characters - whether they are emperors or beggars, powerful ministers or dead warriors - are struggling in the same chess game. Some people are eaten, and some people are lucky enough to survive a few more moves, and that's it. If you like Game of Thrones-style cruel group portraits, rigorously logical power games, and narratives about troubled times without the aura of the protagonist, welcome to join the game.