The Eternal Qin Calamity

The fate of Qin, doomed to fall after just two generations from the time of its First Emperor, is rewritten: Fusu survives, Hu Hai usurps the throne, and Prince Gao, Jiang Lü, and Prince Ye ascend one after another, only to die suddenly. Six emperors come and go in fifteen years. Then Western Qin is founded, and the Qin lineage endures for fifteen hundred years under one hundred and seventeen emperors. Yet every Qin emperor is cursed by the Ancestral Dragon: the longer the dynasty lasts, the shorter the emperors' lives. By the final Qin, the throne changes hands in less than three years at a time. This is the cursed history of an immortal empire, and the tragic cycle of a hundred generations of lonely rulers.