On the first day of the sixth month in the ninth year of the Wude era of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Zhi, an official in charge of the Eastern Palace's guards, clutched the cracked seal on a document. The stench of blood pierced his nostrils in an instant.
At that very moment, he suddenly realized that he had already been caught in the vortex.
He was both the Qin Prince's eyes in the Eastern Palace and the Crown Prince's nail in the Office of the Guards, as well as the living piece the Sage had buried beneath the chessboard.
What truth lay hidden behind this bloody upheaval, famous throughout history?
