Song Hou, a young man from the modern era, transmigrates into the body of a down-and-out member of the imperial clan in the Great Zhou dynasty who shares his name. From the start, he is trapped in a desperate situation: his family is in decline, and he has been demoted and sent away as a hostage. When memories of his past lives awaken, he discovers that he has memories from three cycles of reincarnation. In his first life, he was a loyal official who spoke out fearlessly and was brutally executed by being cut in half. In his second, he was a mediocrity who kept his head down but watched his country fall and his family perish. In his third, he resolves not to repeat his past mistakes and activates the mysterious Eternal Treacherous Official System, embarking on a defiant path to save his country through infamy and forge a way forward amid public denunciation.
Impossible choices and a deadly secret: Song Hou must make the agonizing choice between preserving his reputation as a loyal official and bearing the infamy of a treacherous one so he can take real steps to save the country. His greatest secret is his memories of three lifetimes and his System. If exposed, he will face the emperor’s suspicion, attacks from the court officials, and pursuit by enemy nations, leaving him utterly doomed.
*Villainous proxies and opposing factions* At court, the upright civil officials led by Grand Secretary Zhang Tingyu regard Song Hou as a cancer corrupting the state and repeatedly impeach and frame him. Within the palace, the eunuch faction led by Chief Eunuch Liu Jin of the Directorate of Ceremonial, though ostensibly his “backers,” actually see him as a pawn they can discard at any moment and a scapegoat. Beyond the northern frontier, the Great Khan of the Northern Di, Yelu Hongzhen, watches like a tiger, while his agents have already infiltrated the court. These three forces, acting openly and in secret, encircle Song Hou on all sides.
- **Countdown** Song Hou, a young man from the modern era, transmigrates into the body of a down-and-out member of the imperial clan in the Great Zhou dynasty who shares his name. From the start, he is trapped in a desperate situation: his family is in decline, and he has been demoted and sent away as a hostage. When memories of his past lives awaken, he discovers that he has memories from three cycles of reincarnation.
