The Origin of Rebirth from a Drop of Blood

Scenes from Li Mo's life echoed through his mind.

As a child, he had lived as a hostage with his father in a foreign land, growing up amid fear and poverty. Later, his father returned home alone, leaving him behind as an abandoned child.

At last, after six years of scraping by in the shadows, he returned to Qin as the Crown Prince's grandson.

The cold treatment he had suffered in Zhao only grew worse after he returned to Qin.

Many said he was not his father's son, that he did not resemble the bloodline of Great Qin. He spoke little and said even less, lacking the dazzling talent and imposing nobility of the other royal descendants.

The other royal descendants had never regarded him as a prince either. Year after year, they mocked his bloodline. Seeing him swallow his anger, they turned their veiled barbs into open ridicule.

That day, he finally could not bear to see his mother insulted and came to blows with them.

But they had strength in numbers, and they were tall and powerful. He was no match for them.

He called for his father, only to see embarrassment in his birth father's eyes.

Like the noble clansmen, his father found him shameful, as though his very existence was proof of his father's humiliation in Zhao.

So he gave up resisting, just as he had in Zhao.

People said he was frail and cowardly, unfit to be a noble, much less a future king.

No one cared that he had been steeped in poverty and terror since birth. The miserable fate brought upon him by the royal clan had become his sin.

After four difficult years, his grandfather and father passed away one after another.

That day, he took up the royal seal of Qin.