Red Robes, a Stairway of Bones

Twelve years ago, the Grand Liang State-Protecting Mansion fell overnight, its entire household slaughtered. Six-year-old Mu Hai hid inside a rice vat and was rescued by Li Changsheng, the "Greatest Strategist Under Heaven." Li took him into seclusion in the bamboo forests of Daxia, where he became the last surviving heir of the Mu family.

No one knew that Li Changsheng was actually a transmigrator from the future. Burdened by a debt to Mu Hai's father, he raised the orphan for twelve years and painstakingly laid out an elaborate scheme: using Mu Hai as a piece on the board to help Daxia's Third Princess, Xia Qingxue, win the succession struggle, expand her armies, and ultimately annex Grand Liang.

Twelve years later, Mu Hai emerged from seclusion. At the Battle of Three Gorges, he defeated a vastly larger force and took thirty thousand heads, becoming a legend in a single battle. But Grand Liang was enraged and the whole nation brought pressure to bear. In the end, the empress sent him to Grand Liang, the land of his enemies. All under heaven sighed: a peerless hero had become a discarded pawn.

By then, the game had changed, and events had already taken another path. Entering Grand Liang's court as a hostage, Mu Hai rose step by step and stirred up a storm, only to stumble upon a truth he had never imagined: the Liang Emperor, whom he had hated for twelve years, was not the one who had slaughtered his family.