They were meant to pacify the nation together. A warlord’s son, scorned for his humble origins. A noble’s heir, jaded by unearned thrones. When Sun Ce and Zhou Yu cross blades beneath the pear trees, time begins to bend. Then, Sun Ce dies. His spirit lingers, bound to a sword and a promise unkept. But Zhou Yu is not yet finished. Not while memory burns brighter than the fires of Red Cliffs. As he shatters his soul to rewrite the fate that doomed them both, Sun Ce—caught between regret and longing—reaches for him from the far shore of death. Amidst the war-torn ruins of an alternate 2nd-century China, grief unravels ambition—and love, in the end, redeems all.