Agarwood Amid the Ashes

In an age of upheaval, the Li family is the last faint fragrance left by a declining feudal society. As if sensing that the dynasty is about to collapse, it gathers all its strength to kindle its final wisp of agarwood, making it shine brighter and smell sweeter than ever. In this great upheaval, some find new life, some sink into darkness, and some are swallowed by the gloom before dawn just as hope comes into view. The very different personalities of the three Li brothers doom them to starkly different fates. As Zhao Hai cradles the ashes of the extinguished agarwood and tears fall, can he, like his third brother Zhao Shen, sacrifice everything for freedom and ideals? But when he turns and sees the ancestral rules of the Li family, his fate seems ordained, inescapable...