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When talking about the end of the Shu Han Dynasty, many people will think of Liu Chan being unable to support him and the eunuch Huang Hao taking power, or of Deng Ai sneaking into Yinping and Zhong Hui's troops arriving in Chengdu. But in this gradually collapsing historical picture, there is one person who has always stood at the forefront of the battlefield. For more than ten years, he has single-handedly maintained the dignity and hope of the Shu Han Dynasty. He is Jiang Wei. He is the successor of Zhuge Liang, the final practitioner of the Northern Expedition route, and the last gambler on the survival of the Shu Han. His persistence may have been almost stubborn at the time, but looking back in history, it is full of a will for revival that is somewhere between rationality and tragedy. This article will start from Jiang Wei's origin, ambition, military practice, political dilemma and the end of his life, reconstructing why this "last successor" desperately pursued an almost impossible goal. His fate is not a simple failure, but a symbol of an era trying to shine its last light in the apocalyptic storm. 
