From the start, it's a death trap. The comeback depends on acting skills.
Top salesman Lin Mo never imagined that his first KPI after transmigrating would be “keep his head on his shoulders.”
He opens his eyes to find himself sprawled on the execution block, a gleaming executioner's blade behind him and a crowd of thousands cursing below. The Duke of Dingguo's entire household has been condemned to death, and Lin Mo is the only one left alive.
With nowhere to run, Lin Mo launches into a mind-reading performance on the spot. He immediately sees through the crowd's incognito visitor, Empress Wu Huang, and uses a secret memorial from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion as bait to bargain for three days of life before the executioner's blade falls.
At the Great Zhou court, the powerful chancellor wields absolute authority, while the empress has been reduced to a ruler in name only.
With granaries burning, public anger boiling over, and enemy spies lurking, everyone is waiting for Lin Mo to die.
Lin Mo just smiles. “When it comes to political scheming, I was doing it before your ancestors. When it comes to strategy, I'm a top-tier operator.”
He uses scarcity marketing to turn the tables on grain-hoarding tycoons, futures trading to leave the chancellor bankrupt, and modern special-forces tactics to train Leng Yue, the icy beauty of an assassin known as “One Blade Under the Moon.”
From condemned prisoner to master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, from wastrel to the emperor's foremost tutor.
Lin Mo dances on the edge of a blade, laying his plans deep within people's hearts.
All he wants is to overturn this old case and, while he's at it, help that aloof empress secure her throne.
But when the truth comes to light, he discovers that he's not the only one playing this game...
“Your Majesty, could I trade my performance record for a death-exemption pass?”
Wu Huang gives him a cool smile. “There is no death-exemption pass, but my bedchamber could use a strategist.”
