Thunder in the High Tang

The story of Shen Lei, a modern special forces soldier who unexpectedly transmigrates into the Tang Dynasty and becomes the last surviving member of the Shen family, a prominent Jiangnan clan framed for a crime. After transmigrating, she once went by Han Lei.

She wakes to find herself trapped in the intrigues of the Han household and the whirlpool of court politics. To protect herself and clear her family’s name, she secretly establishes the intelligence network Thunder Pavilion. Using modern investigative methods and combat skills, she carves out a place for herself in the treacherous city of Chang’an. From a smuggling case involving illicit salt on the Longyou trade route, to the struggle for the throne between the Crown Prince and the Third Prince, and then to the secret alliance between the remnants of the Wei clan and the Turkic forces, Shen Lei leads core members Shadow One, Shadow Two, Shadow Three, and the others through hidden passages in the cracks of power, using her wits to set all sides in motion.

She uncovers the secrets her birth mother left behind and reveals the connection between the destruction of the Shen family and the case against the deposed Crown Prince…