Dragon Court of the Stolen Kingdom

The world only knows that the Great Yan has stood for a thousand years, unaware that these centuries are merely a chess game of stolen kingdoms set up by the Seven States. Those who sit high in the Purple Palace are all puppets; the fertile lands of the Nine Provinces are nothing but pastures. Shen Yan of the Hanlin Academy, originally a lone guardian of scrolls, awakens through blood and fire—that what he has been protecting is never this cage called 'Great Yan,' but the orthodox Great Xia, erased for centuries. Break the covenant, drive out the distant invaders, restore our robes and crowns. This time, he will not be a bookkeeper but a player of the game.