Moonlight shone and stars were sparse, as the crows flew south.
Amidst the bamboo shadows that swayed with the wind, a graceful figure walked towards the bed, helping a frail man rise.
His body trembled, barely getting up as he seemed to exhaust all of his strength, breaking into uncontrollable coughs.
Within the secluded bamboo grove echoed the heart-wrenching coughs, permeated with a sense of decline from the sickbed.
"Could that be the Crown Prince!?" Zhou Dao thought to himself.
Among the sons of the Qin Emperor, only the Crown Prince was born before he ascended the throne.
At that time, the Qin Emperor himself was just an ambitious prince, struggling amid the palace intrigues and secret schemes... Even staying out of the power center's spotlight could not shield him from the storm.
It's said that the Crown Prince faced life-threatening dangers even within his mother's womb, and although his life was saved, from then on he was afflicted with ailments.