Cold Mountains and Rivers

In the final years of the Dayan Dynasty, at Yanmen on the northern frontier. The defending general is killed, his deputy surrenders the city, and barbarian cavalry closes in. The entire city capitulates. Only the overlooked second son of a border-city family dares to draw his blade in the rain and sever the general's head, hanging it from the city gate. He believes in neither loyalty nor promises, and he has no faith in the court. The only thing he believes in is “the living.” “Cities can be rebuilt. But only the living can build the next one.” From a border town to the Central Plains, from three hundred veterans to a hundred thousand cavalry... This is the rise of a ruthless warlord, and the story of rebuilding order in a world in chaos.