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A regent's power is borrowed, never owned

This lesson plays out across 1 chapter of the chronicle. Read where it was learned — and what it cost.

• The Boy Who Inherits
  Qin Annals · 255 – 228 BC

  Twenty-eight years. Three Qin kings die in five years; a merchant becomes chancellor; a thirteen-year-old inherits a state already built for conquest.