Bright Blood

When a nation's fortunes have fallen to their lowest point, there are always people who step forward. Knowing they are destined to die, they hold no regrets, using their own blood to unleash one final roar at the enemy. The twilight of the Great Ming was likewise filled with men of passion: Yan Dian Shi, who declared, "There are generals who surrender, but no Dian Shi who surrender"; Xia Wanchun, who organized a volunteer army to resist the Qing at the age of seventeen and, captured at eighteen, remained steadfast and unyielding; and Minister Shi, who was indecisive in his actions yet ultimately chose to die with the city... A butterfly flaps its wings and plunges into the countercurrent of history. When Wang Fu discovers that he has become Hongguang, the short-lived emperor, his first thought is not to alter history or change the fate of his people, who are about to sink into centuries of darkness, but to flee and place himself somewhere safe. Yet when he truly has to face the bloody realities of the Ten Days of Yangzhou and the Three Massacres of Jiading, Wang Fu realizes that he has suddenly been a fool. He no longer thinks about how to escape. He will do his part for this final dynasty, even if it means his body being shattered to pieces. To resist the barbaric invasion of the Manchu Qing, countless passionate men gather beneath the banner of the Great Ming, using their lives to defend the land that raised them, even if it means bleeding themselves dry. The blood they shed is Ming blood.