Great Qin: The First Emperor Finds a Fragment, and the World Won’t Fall Apart Again

He pacified the six states and proclaimed himself the First Emperor. In the Xianyang Palace, while sorting through the old bamboo records confiscated from the conquered states, Ying Zheng happened upon a badly damaged silk scroll covered in strange writing. A mere hundred characters recounted what would happen after his death. At first, he dismissed it as a sorcerer’s nonsense or a curse from the remnants of the six states. But the scroll’s hidden details kept matching reality, one by one. Even the illness that would afflict him in a few months and the timing of the meteorite in Dongjun seemed to be foretold. For the first time, the First Emperor, whose ambitions soared above the heavens, tasted a bone-deep chill.