High-IQ mind games, mutual probing, cat-and-mouse, everyone is a mole, no System, hard-boiled
Pei Zhenge, a border defense operative missing for seven years, returns home and is hailed across the country as an antiterrorism hero. Only Su Jianwei, a low-ranking analyst at the Jingyuan Bureau, insists that he has defected, because she suffers from "empathic overload" and can detect every flaw in human microexpressions.
Everyone thinks she's crazy, until a massive explosion rocks the Shenzhou Building and the hero becomes the enemy of the people. In a political abyss woven with suspicion and murderous intent, Su Jianwei personally sends Pei Zhenge across the border, then tears open the network of moles buried deep within the agency on her own.
When faked death and deep cover become the endgame, she uses herself as bait to infiltrate the heart of the enemy nation. The madwoman who tells the truth ultimately trades self-exile for peace and prosperity.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.