num_pages: 400
description: How much would you give to win the world?Zhu Yuanzhang the Radiant King is riding high after her victory that tore southern China from its Mongol masters. Now she burns with a new desire: to seize the throne and crown herself emperor.But Zhu isnt the only one with imperial ambitions. Her neighbor in the south the courtesan Madam Zhang wants the throne for her husbandand shes strong enough to wipe Zhu off the map. To stay in the game Zhu will have to gamble everything on a risky alliance with an old enemy: the talented but unstable eunuch general Ouyang who has already sacrificed everything for a chance at revenge on his fathers killer the Great Khan.Unbeknownst to the southerners a new contender is even closer to the throne. The scorned scholar Wang Baoxiang has maneuvered his way into the capital and his lethal court games threaten to bring the empire to its knees. For Baoxiang also desires revenge: to become the most degenerate Great Khan in historyand in so doing make a mockery of every value his Mongol warrior family loved more than him.All the contenders are determined to do whatever it tak
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title: He Who Drowned the World
publisher: Tor Books