At the New Year's banquet in the sixteenth year of Yanxi, I was merely a minor official in charge of the wine cups, but I witnessed the entire assassination of Grand General Fei Yi.
The instant that cold blade pierced his brocade robe, blood reddened the lights throughout the hall and stained the fate of my remaining years.
Amid the chaos, the maniacal grin of Guo Xiu, a surrendered general from Wei, and the jade token of Jiang Wei's personal guard, which flashed briefly from a colleague's sleeve, became two blades hanging over my head.
They say this was a lone man's revenge, but I know it was a shocking conspiracy that would engulf Shu Han.
As the blade meant to silence me draws near, I, a nobody as insignificant as an ant, can only cling to those few scattered clues and risk my life amid the deadly struggle for power to tear away the disguise covering the truth!
This is a historical suspense novel, short and concise, telling an assassination case during the Three Kingdoms period. Cleverly conceived, fluently written, worth reading 👍