Lin Zheng opened his eyes with a rag stuffed in his mouth. He was in a death cell in the forty-seventh year of the Kangxi reign.
His crime: conspiring with the Restoration Society. His sentence: execution in three days.
Nian Lie, a thousand-household commander of the Qing Imperial Bodyguard, offered him a way to live: infiltrate the Restoration Society in Jiangnan and serve as the court's lackey.
Lin Zheng agreed.
Until the day he saw Qing soldiers slaughter an entire village with his own eyes.
The girl who had brought him food died at her own doorstep.
Her eyes were still open.
Lin Zheng wiped the blood from his sword and said one thing to Nian Lie:
“I’m done being your dog.”
From a lackey of the court to a resistance hero, from a wandering martial artist to the commander-in-chief of the realm’s armies:
If there is no justice in this world, he will fight to make it.
