Set during China's Three Kingdoms era (AD 220-280). The story of a great king and his people who will be expelled from their homeland and will aspire to claim it. The king violent and ambitious of mysterious methods and motives; his general a visionary who yearns to win the final battle but needs to prepare his plans in secret; the women of the palace who struggle to find redemption in a world where they have no place; and a commoner called "Lord of all the world" will be the characters around who turn the inexorable forces of this story.