The late Eastern Han in Romance of the Three Kingdoms was a tumultuous age, full of twists and turns.
There were brave generals, wise strategists, cunning warlords, benevolent rulers, and alluring beauties. It was a time that captured the imagination.
But to Guo Peng, the late Eastern Han was cold.
It was not gentle, not just, and not civilized. Danger lurked everywhere.
He saw hunger, poverty, war, and plague.
He saw bones exposed in the wilderness, with no rooster crowing for a thousand miles.
He saw a desolate land beneath a bleak, ashen sky.
Only the color of blood was vivid.
So he would become a wolf, a cold-blooded, cunning, vile, brave, tenacious, unyielding wolf who never gave up.
Then, step by step, he would climb to the very top.
