The first time he walked into an escort agency, people laughed at him, calling him a useless bookworm who had talked his way into the job. No one knew that his photographic memory held the secret manuals of an entire arsenal. On his first mission, everyone else fought for their lives while he hid behind the cart and watched. No one knew that after seeing an opponent's moves just once, he had memorized every one of them. As a powerful minister's schemes come to light and the entire jianghu becomes a board full of pieces, this untrained clerk and escort guard takes hold of the sharpest blade of all: the rules. He wields his pen like a knife and his intellect like an edge, advancing carefully through a game of power. But when he finally stands before the emperor in court to receive his reward, he says,
