The Hammer's Absolution

Warring States China, 257 BC. Wei Jiu, a disgraced former constable of Daliang, uncovers General Jin Bi's treasonous pact with Qin. Cast out from the law he once served, Jiu steals the royal tiger tally and executes Jin Bi with a blacksmith's hammer—an act of vigilante justice that saves the besieged state of Zhao. Haunted by the murder and hunted by his former comrades, Jiu must confront a harder truth: all redemption leads to forgiving oneself, and that is the most impossible threshold.