The Fire Dragon Dynasty

For eight hundred and seventeen years, the Heavenly Dragon Dynasty has ruled beneath Heaven.

Li Renji was born at the very bottom of it.

The six-year-old son of a low-ranking palace maid, Renji owns nothing but his name. He sleeps with his mother in a tiny room hidden among forgotten Imperial storehouses, eats what the palace kitchens can spare, and knows that by fifteen, boys like him are expected to leave the servants' quarters and become soldiers.

He should have lived an ordinary life.
There is only one problem:
Li Renji can read.

In a palace where knowledge belongs to the powerful, a forgotten storehouse filled with centuries of discarded books, maps, cultivation records, weapons, and relics becomes a kingdom of his own.

Then, at seven years old, his Qi awakens.
And something ancient awakens with it.
While the Imperial Court devours itself through corruption, paranoia, and bloodshed, a slave boy watches. He listens. He learns. And piece by piece, he begins to understand the empire that has kept his mother on her knees.

One day, the Heavenly Dragon will fall.
And from its ashes,
a Fire Dragon will rise.