Synopsis
An alternate history set in the chaos after the fall of Eastern Jin. Jiang Zhe spent ten years in poverty studying for the imperial examinations, made it into Hanlin Academy, and promptly got pulled into a succession dispute he never wanted. He tried to stay out of court politics. It didn't work. Armed with intelligence, historical knowledge, and a scholar's caution, he navigated conspiracies and battlefield campaigns — the kind of man before whom great warriors eventually bent the knee.
