The Long Night of the Later Han

Years later, as he lay on the sandalwood bed in the Prince of Wei’s residence, Liang Zhen, the transmigrator who held power over the court, looked back on his life. What he cherished most was neither the Jian’an era, when he ruled with an iron hand, nor the Zhongping era, when he strove to restore the Han dynasty. It was the years of Heyang, when he stood guard at the frontier with a halberd in hand. Even though, in those brief years, his life hung in the balance several times.