Price and Ashes

"The Price and the Ashes" is an fictional epic that asks "how freedom comes to fruition". From the bloodshed in the Kaihe Plain to the "elimination" of millions of nameless people under the imperial marking system, the novel grimly reveals: Overthrowing tyranny is just the beginning. The real proposition lies in how to restrain power, let the dead be remembered, and let the victors accept restrictions. When the old emperor "died by time rather than the sword" and when the "Freedom Charter" was born from an old wooden round table, the core idea of ​​the work became clearer: freedom never comes from heroes or saints, but from an institutional commitment that "can be questioned, modified, and inherited." The so-called progress is just that humans find a "not so bad" way to live before the star goes out.