I'm an Undercover Agent in the Song Dynasty

One poem came true, and he transmigrated into the sacrificial victim in his own story.

On a rainy night in the fourth year of Jianyan, in Lin’an, history graduate student Li Mubai woke in a pool of blood, a crossbow bolt from the Chancellor’s residence embedded in his shoulder blade. The unfinished poem “Looking North” had struck a nerve with the peace faction. As his life hung by a thread, a woman in blue robes who killed with copper coins came through the rain. “Want to live? From today on, you’re Li Suchen, the thorn in the Qin Chancellor’s side that must be removed, and a deeply buried agent of the Yue Family Army.”

From then on, Li Suchen, a silk merchant from Jiangning, navigated Lin’an’s treacherous underworld. At a banquet in the Qin residence, he took up his brush and altered a line, daring to write “A thousand miles, one shared realm” before the Jin envoys. In Yicui Pavilion, he and the top courtesan investigated the trail of the Imperial Seal, every exchange a blade hidden in clever words. Beneath Leifeng Pagoda, as the real and fake seals changed hands, the fate of the realm and the hearts of its people were at stake.

Meanwhile, Zhao Qinghe, the woman in blue, taught him how to kill with a blade, and showed him how hatred could freeze a person into ice, then burn them like a raging fire. When the blood feud over her younger brother became entangled with the trail of the Imperial Seal, they discovered that Lin’an was merely one piece on a much larger chessboard. The players were Qin Hui’s lust for power, the Jin army’s iron hooves, Yue Fei’s lonely loyalty, and a transmigrator determined to set history in motion.

This is transmigration at its harshest. No System, no way back. Only the blood and gore between the lines of the history books, and a faint spark in the darkness that refuses to die.

If he was destined to be a mole, then he would become the blade buried deepest in the enemy’s heart.

If history was destined to twist and turn, then he would give his life to carve another future for the Han people and their land.

In a nutshell: A brilliant history student transmigrates to the Southern Song, where he...