Survival Over Virtue

In the twilight of the Three Kingdoms, a series of ritualistic murders plagues the capital of Wei. Each corpse is posed to reenact a fatal scene from ancient classics—the Zuo Zhuan, the Records of the Grand Historian, and the Art of War. The investigator, a disgraced son of the executed chancellor Zhong Hui, must hunt a killer who turns the city into a living library of literary bloodshed. But as he delves deeper, he discovers that every suspect—including his own pardoned cousins—plays a role in a grand theatre of survival, where loyalty, honor, and righteousness are merely masks for primal fear. When the final chapter unfolds, the line between hunter and prey blurs, and the only truth is that morality is a joke when life is at stake.