The Han Scions of the Jin Court

The mountains are what we look back on again and again; the sea is what we can never forget. On the day Jiang Wei fell in battle amid the flames in Chengdu, the last light of the Han Empire vanished for good. The Jin stood beside his corpse and drew out a gallbladder as large as a peck. They stared at one another. The Western Jin Empire was founded on this victory, but the answer to where the future would lead was a brutal one. Forty years later, the land would be filled with wailing, the Nine Provinces laid waste, corpses piled high and the starving scattered like clouds. Amid this apocalyptic chaos, duty and fate set Liu Xian, Liu Bei's great-grandson and the Anle Duke's heir, born and raised in the land, on a journey to restore the Han. Following the deeds of his teacher and the Han's ancestors, he meets once more the descendants of old rivals and family friends, including Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Lu Xun, Lu Zhi, and Xun Yu. He is tempered, transformed, and propelled forward by political struggles and the ravages of war. At first, he is alone. When he looks back, he has become the one everyone wants to follow.