Rites of a Dying Dynasty

Revenge tastes like ashes when the empire itself is crumbling. Ye Yongjia, adopted heir to a fallen house, claws his way from blood-soaked vengeance in Chenzhou to the poisoned halls of power in the capital. Every victory in the treacherous game of officialdom costs him another piece of his soul. As he drowns in wealth and status, the reformers around him burn like candles in a storm—brilliant, doomed, forgotten. This is their requiem: a haunting chronicle of idealists crushed by history, told through the eyes of the one man who survived by losing everything that mattered.