A Hidden Mastermind

Name: A Hidden Mastermind
Author: Hamburger Doesn't Take Medicine

隐世奇局

by Hamburger Doesn't Take Medicine (汉堡不吃药)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 1.1M Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical High-Concept
Updated: 6d ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

I'm really just a scholar. How would I know anything about fighting and killing?

[Play the pig to eat the tiger] [Decisive and ruthless] [Invincible protagonist]

Late at night...

The Xu residence was engulfed in flames, its courtyard reduced to ashes.

A four-year-old child and his father fled the capital under cover of night, making their way to the northern frontier.

After sixteen years deep in the mountains, he mastered his father's teachings. With scholarship, he could govern a nation; with strength, he could subdue fierce beasts barehanded.

All he had wanted was to stay by his father's side and spend the rest of his life amid the mountains and rivers.

A locust plague drove starving refugees to desperate measures. They chose to waylay a military grain convoy, and a silver-armored female general surrounded the mountain with her troops, accidentally stumbling upon this secluded paradise.

Moved by compassion, he spoke up to beg for a chance at survival for more than a hundred lives. Instead, the female general, a bold daughter of a military family, directly "invited" him into her camp and forcibly appointed him as a secretary.

From a hermit in the mountains to a military strategist, from a commoner to a force stirring the imperial court.

Why had his father set their residence ablaze and fled in the middle of the night all those years ago?

How many deadly traps were hidden in that unfinished game of chess in the capital?

As the secrets buried for sixteen years slowly emerge from the whirlpool of power, and the storms of the Longyuan Dynasty weigh upon his shoulders,

he gazes across the vast land.

"If I can't avoid it, then I'll be the one to make the next move."

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