The Book-Burning Calamity

In the final years of the Warring States period, the realm was torn by endless conflict and the clash of arms. In a remote border town of the state of Zhao, two boys sharing the same name—Zhao Yu and Zhao Zi'an—became fast friends through their mutual obsession with the art of war. Ambitious and idealistic, they dreamed of finding a wise ruler and using their strategic brilliance to end the chaos and save the people from suffering. Yet the twists of fate awaiting them were far more cruel and grand than they could ever have imagined. — Description from novelcodex.org