Some secrets aren't ones you're meant to find. They find you.
Shen Mu, formerly a hundred-household officer in the Embroidered Uniform Guard, now works as a bookkeeper at a Qinhuai tavern. He has just one talent: he never forgets anything he's heard.
In the twelfth year of Hongwu, he heard a sentence.
It didn't belong to the world he was supposed to know. But once it entered his ears, there was no taking it back.
An informant, a chancellor, an emperor. Three forces, one secret.
Shen Mu only wants to survive.
But in the Hongwu era, staying alive is the hardest thing of all.
