The Dragon of the Great Ming

Suzhou Prefecture, in the thirty-eighth year of the Jiajing reign.

Heavy snow weighed on the tiles of the death row, and on Yang Jian's life, which was hanging by a thread.

Imprisoned, with his entire family awaiting execution.

Yet in the darkest, most desperate place in the world, he made the boldest, most perilous move of all.

The imperial court and its officials, the martial world and its bandits, the street gangs and their fighters.

It seemed everyone wanted him dead.

But he would trade all their lives for a way to survive.

A dragon rises from the abyss.

Its roar shakes the Ming Empire.