The First Emperor—the man who united the whole of China for the first time—is dead. Around the country, rival factions battle for the right to succeed him.
“Kings and nobles are not produced by birth!”
Those words spur not only patriotic warriors with high-minded ideals but also the avaricious and ambitious into action.

Meanwhile, in the celestial realm, Sima Qian—the apprentice Keeper of Alternate Histories—has a dream.
He sees the world of men in turmoil, collapsing as a black wave swallows it up.
Unable to stand by and watch an alternate history fall amid such chaos, Sima Qian breaks the law of the celestial realm to venture into the human world alone.
And in that world of men, two dazzling stars appear.

These stars are… Xiang Yu and Liu Bang!

The age of the Red Dragon Maiden and the Vicious King is about to begin.