Abyssal Strategy

When he was five, he found a secret letter in the attic of his family’s old home. It revealed the true reason his great-grandfather had been demoted.

From that day on, he understood one thing: the rules of this world were written for the powerful.

He passed the county exam at seven, earned the title of licentiate at nine, and placed third in the palace exam at twelve. Some called him a genius, others a prodigy. Only he knew the truth: he had simply lived through a previous life.

The emperor personally marked his paper with three vermilion circles and selected him as the third-place graduate. But that night, an urgent letter left the chancellor’s residence, bound for Anping County.

He had no idea someone was investigating him.

He had even less idea that the person investigating him held the truth about his great-grandfather’s death.