Zhao Gao

"A sword is a murder weapon. The Net Trap is a murder weapon. You, too, are a murder weapon."

- Zhao Gao

Zhao Gao is the overall secondary antagonist in Legend of Qin franchise. He is a eunuch serving the Empire of Qin and the trusted Prime Minister in the court of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. He is a highly fictionalized version on.

His secret identity differs between two adpatation of the main series. In the animated series, he is the leader of Net Trap, a secret organization of assassins that originated in Qin Empire. In the live-action series, however, he is secretly the Eastern Emperor, the leader of Yin-Yang Theorist and the series' final antagonist.

He is voiced by Xie Tiantian in the animated series and portrayed by Zhang Lei in the live-action series.

Official Description
''Rise from a plain eunuch, Zhao Gao surprisingly take control over the final years of Qin Dynasty, and the entire land has never too far from his reach. He bestows destruction upon the Empire of Qin's delusional dream towards eternity, before buries himself in the deluge of history. So was he really a buffoon that raised to the peak of the world by chance? What truth would lie beneath his endlessly deep pupil?''

Trivia

 * In the animated series' character popularity poll raised by Wang Yi Company, Zhao Gao won the 32nd place with 2117 polls.