Bai Qi and the White Horse

After the pitiless slaughter at Changping, Lord Wu'an—Bai Qi—shakes the realm with his martial glory. Yet this peerless general, who could sweep the Six Kingdoms, finds himself ensnared in the treacherous politics of Xianyang. King Zhaoxiang regards him with deepening suspicion; Chancellor Fan Ju lays hidden snares; the royal princes maneuver in shadow; Lü Buwei bides his time. Every faction in the Qin court takes its turn upon the stage. One side holds the bloody fields of conquest, the other the veiled games of power. Countless ordinary folk pass through cities and passes, weaving together the tapestry of life in the final years of the Warring States. Bai Qi burns to complete the conquest of Zhao, yet is ceaselessly drawn into rifts between sovereign and subject, and feuds among rival cliques. He emerges unscathed from a hundred battles, dodging a thousand arrows and blades—but he cannot dodge the schemes that strike from behind. Across ten thousand li of beacon fires, his achievements tower to the heavens—only to end with the sword bestowed at Duyou, as a generation's tragic god of war meets his fall.