The Mirror-Crossing Record

[Historical political intrigue + mystery] The entire army was wiped out. I alone survived, only to be condemned for all eternity as a traitor who colluded with the enemy! Behind the Canglang Valley massacre lay a monstrous plot by the Marquis of Jing'an, who falsified military intelligence and trafficked in weapons. He goes undercover at the marquis’s manor under an assumed name, tearing apart, layer by layer, the outrageous lies woven by the powerful. Undercover agents, forensic examiners, veteran canal boatmen, a deputy commander of the Mirror Surveillance Bureau… Countless people lurk in the shadows, standing shoulder to shoulder with him against the powers of the court. He peels back each layer of a tangled conspiracy and solves, one by one, the bloody cases buried for six years. When the truth finally comes to light and the mastermind is brought to justice, he casts off the shackles he has carried for half his life, rides to Canglang Valley, and rejoins his nine fallen brothers at last, years after the fact.