The Gatekeeper's Last Kill

In the Spring and Autumn State of Chu, a jaded royal assassin, forged by the brutal self-sacrifice of his predecessor Yu Quan, takes a final contract. His target leads him to an orphan who mirrors his own broken past. In a world where forced remonstrance is canonized and lives are ground down by the machinery of power, the killer attempts a desperate journey of redemption, only to find that every sacrifice is a negligible loss in the great profit machine of the state.