Li Zhao was accused of suffering a mental breakdown and confined to a psychiatric hospital. That night, her brainwave recordings from when she was unconscious suddenly played across every interstellar channel, showing her commanding a fleet to annihilate a Zerg hive with impossible tactics. The military rushed to impose a blackout, but the rebels cheered: she was the true commander of the Starwardens. Ji Jin, who had personally sent her to the hospital, began secretly deciphering the tactical codes she had left behind. Bai Ling, a doctor at the asylum, discovered that her dreams were reconstructing the truth of the war. And Gray Falcon, from the underground black market, was carrying his dying father’s warning to her fingertips as she stirred awake. When the interstellar network began broadcasting her “hallucinations” of its own accord, humanity finally realized that the truly insane one was the empire raised on lies.
