Novels like The Women's Bomb Squad: A Glorious Mission
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- 1 Snow Leopard: Dawn Is Coming 雪豹：黎明将至 Life and death were already decided, but there was still regret and resentment. Resentment at failing to protect the country and never seeing peace. Regret at losing his beloved and being powerless to stop it. He was fortunate to receive Heaven’s favor. In the eighteenth year of the Republic, calm waters concealed surging currents. Country and family, loyalty and filial duty, life and death, love and hate, black and white... The past, the present, the future. Would he repeat the same mistakes or 1.9kReads8.1Score117Shelves
- 2 Espionage in the Republic of China: Starting with a Treasure Chest, I Tear Apart the Japanese 民国谍战：从宝箱开始，手撕鬼子 Introduction: [War of Resistance against Japan + Brave and resourceful + Passionate + Loyal and righteous + Deep brotherhood + High-tech + Saving the country through unconventional means + Cunning + Undercover + Disguises + Perfect secret agent] After a car accident, Lin Feng transmigrates to Long Country, a parallel world resembling China in 1938. It is now the second year of the full-scale war against Japan, an era of internal strife and foreign threats, with the nation in peril and traitors a 452Reads7.2Score106Shelves
- 3 The Flying Dagger Heroine: A Hero of the War Against Japan 抗日英雄之飞刀女侠 A flying-dagger hero appeared in the county town, repeatedly killing Japanese soldiers caught alone with willow-leaf throwing knives. This hero could scale walls and leap across rooftops, appearing and vanishing without a trace. People knew she existed only from the bodies of the Japanese soldiers and the daggers left in them. Before long, turmoil swept the town and countryside. Japanese and puppet agents laid a vast net across the county, while plainclothes spies roamed everywhere, asking after 2.2kReads8.7Score289Shelves
- 4 The Spy Blade: 1933 谍刃1933 No transmigration + no System + no heroine + slow pace + strives to stay close to historical fact Li Mo, an orphan from a Shanghai lane, is taken to the Northeast by a guide working for the Communist Party and becomes a policeman in the puppet state of Manchukuo. Through a twist of fate, he earns the favor of senior Kwantung Army officers. Relying on his own abilities, he rises step by step from a low-ranking policeman in the puppet Manchukuo government to deputy director of the police departmen 85Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 5 Espionage: From Agent to Japanese Aristocrat 谍战：从特工到鬼子贵族 “Who am I? …Chen Lin? …Or Konoe Ichiro? …Chinese? Or Japanese?…” “You are Konoe Ichiro, heir to Japan’s Konoe family, one of the Five Regent Houses, and Konoe Fumimaro’s eldest grandson. You are Japanese!!!” “That’s right, I’m Konoe Ichiro… Konoe Ichiro… I am Konoe Ichiro… I’m Japanese… Then who are you?” “Me? My name is Chen Lin! I’m Chinese… Chen Lin!” 68Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Strongest God of War in the Resistance Against Japan 抗战之最强军神 The strongest soldier, Su Yang, finds himself in the body of a man on the anti-Japanese battlefield. Japanese invaders are ravaging the land, the nation has fallen, and the country is on the brink of ruin. How could Su Yang just stand by and do nothing? 115Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 7 Lost in the Spy Game 谍海迷踪 The turbulent age is rife with calamity! A young man with some martial arts and medical skills finds himself working as a doctor for a gang. When the nation faces a crisis, he secretly joins the underground Communist Party. Keeping a low profile, biding his time, and acting decisively and ruthlessly, he endures one trial after another, becomes a member of the Military Statistics Bureau and the 76th Bureau, and begins a ghostlike career as a spy! 218Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 8 I Transmigrated into the Republic of China Era as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Training Corps 魂穿民国成为教导总队中校参谋 Lin Wei died from drinking too much at a party, only to transmigrate to the 20th year of the Republic of China and become a lieutenant colonel staff officer with the Central Army Officers' Training Corps. (Disclaimer: This story is entirely fictional and takes place in an alternate-history parallel world.) 1.3kReads6.9Score537Shelves
- 9 War of Resistance: From Foot Soldier to General 抗战：从小兵到将军 Zhang Fei transmigrates to the war-torn era of the War of Resistance Against Japan, where he becomes a poor young farmer who sells sesame flatbreads. But instead of giving in to fate, he leads the villagers to join the Eighth Route Army, bravely fight the Japanese, and defend their homeland, carving out a legendary life for himself! 4kReads8.7Score347Shelves
- 10 Bright Sword: Growing Stronger by Modifying Border-Region Weapons 亮剑：从魔改边区造开始变强 Qin Ze, a top military industry expert, transmigrates into the world of "Drawing Sword" and awakens the Strongest Military Industry Modification System. He can modify any weapon or piece of equipment. The border region's weapons are too weak? After his modifications, their grenades claim the number one spot in the world for destructive power! He turns reloaded bullets into dum-dum rounds: longer range, greater impact, and one shot is enough to blow a melon apart! He modifies land mines into boun 6.9kReads8.9Score353Shelves
- 11 Espionage: Every Female Agent Is My Informant 谍战：女特务都是我的内线 [Espionage + Multiple Heroines + System + Hearing Their Inner Thoughts] Whenever he comes into contact with a beautiful woman, he learns her memories, experiences, inner thoughts, schemes, and secrets, giving him leverage over her. Handsome and devilishly charming, he lies low in enemy territory and finds himself surrounded by one romantic encounter after another, as if he were strolling through a land of women. He cons and deceives, spinning one outrageous tale after another until the enemy's f 2.3kReads7.2Score175Shelves
- 12 Reborn Impostor 重生伪装者 With exceptional skills and an outlook far ahead of his time, Liu Zhenhua serves his country under several layers of assumed identities. He gives everything he has for his 455 million countrymen. If I must die on the battlefield for my country, why should I care whether my body is brought home in a horsehide shroud? 496Reads7.4Score102Shelves
- 13 Espionage: A Fight to the Death 谍战：生死较量 In early 1928, Su Ziwu, the son of a wealthy family, is arrested and imprisoned by the Kuomintang's Special Operations Group, then secretly trained as an agent. During an operation to crack a secret Japanese spy organization, a Chinese Communist underground operative sacrifices herself to protect Su Ziwu's identity. Stunned by this revelation, Su Ziwu makes an even greater discovery: the "Thousand Faces" instructor who has been training him in the Kuomintang unit is also a member of the Chinese 4.1kReads9.2Score487Shelves
- 14 Bloodbath at Songhu 淞沪浴血 True-to-life Republican-era setting, with no System and no golden finger. Chen Huaiming transmigrates into the body of a sergeant squad leader in the 88th Division who shares his name. Fortunately, this Chen Huaiming is a motor transport squad leader. Having arrived in a time of chaos, Chen Huaiming’s first thought is how to get promoted to officer, then find a way to retreat from Songhu. But a mission leaves him injured and hospitalized. By the time he recovers, the Japanese army is on the verg 16.9kReads7.8Score1.4kShelves
- 15 Espionage: A Silent Struggle 谍战：一场无声的斗争 An ordinary aspiring writer unexpectedly finds himself in Republican-era China. Using his strengths, amid internal strife and foreign threats, he resolutely chooses a path of discretion, efficiency, and long-term undercover work for his people and his country. 6.3kReads8.2Score431Shelves
- 16 A Sea of Spycraft and Mystery 谍雾谜海 When faced with known history, some follow it faithfully, while others want to change it! This is a war between two transmigrators! A contest between light and shadow! But who will emerge victorious in the end...? 3.9kReads8.9Score394Shelves
- 17 Bright Sword: What, Your Lieutenant Has So Many Ranks Below Him? 亮剑：什么，你连长下面这么多级 Li Yunlong: “Well, look at you. You really know how to play the fool while keeping your cards close.” The brigade commander: “You’re a company commander. Then what am I?” Wu Jing looked at the platoon leaders, squad leaders, team leaders, and captains under his command... 2kReads8.7Score102Shelves
- 18 Reborn in 1938 重生从1938开始 A humiliating chapter in history. A reborn soldier king, burning with patriotic fervor. Endless hatred. Cold bayonets and precisely aimed bullets of revenge. The terrible bowleggedness. He fulfills the dreams that so many soldiers never could. He travels across the motherland, wielding three divine weapons to turn the night sky into a darkness that terrifies the invaders, and gives rise to a folk legend. 9.5kReads9.1Score529Shelves
- 19 The All-Powerful Soldier King Crushes the Japanese Army 全能兵王之碾压日军 Wang Xiaowei, a modern all-around soldier king, transmigrates to the 1937 Battle of Jinshanwei. Watch as this invincible modern warrior crushes the Japanese army through the battles of Jinshanwei, Kunshan, and Nanjing, the Taierzhuang Campaign, the battles of Wuhan and Changsha, and the Burma Campaign, all the way to victory in the War of Resistance. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Blood and Fire at Taierzhuang: My 1938 血火台儿庄：我的1938 While organizing records of the Battle of Taierzhuang, military researcher Chen Mo is transported by a bullet-riddled battlefield photograph to Xuzhou in 1938, engulfed in flames of war. After becoming a confidential staff officer to the commander of the Fifth War Zone, he discovers that his notebook records every battle and every sacrifice that will occur over the next thirty days. What kind of thrilling story unfolds when modern military knowledge collides with the brutal reality of war?… 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Espionage: Every Animal Is My Inside Man 谍战：动物都是我的内线 After transmigrating into the 28th year of the Republic of China, Gao Lingyu discovered that he had become a low-ranking intelligence officer in the Intelligence Division of the 76th Special Agent Headquarters, under the New Government. In short, he'd become a traitorous dog who had thrown in his lot with the Japanese. But aside from being a traitorous secret agent, he discovered that he had another identity: he was an undercover agent for the Military Statistics Bureau, stationed at the 76th on 4.5kReads8.2Score289Shelves
- 22 The Poor Become Rich Through Their Own Reversal 穷人逆转才是富 After retiring from the special forces, Ye Tianxuan takes on espionage networks and creates the Veterans Group. Working with his partner Xiao Yue, he turns it into a world-class corporation. Together, they tackle social tensions and cutthroat business competition while resisting interference from foreign forces. He also fights criminal organizations through corporate espionage in the modern business world. This story is entirely fictional, yet reality lies hidden within its fiction. 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 A Lone Boat in the Espionage World 谍海孤舟 [Espionage] + [Woman Disguised as a Man] + [Multiple Secret Identities] + [Two Powerful Leads] In 1937, Jinling fell. Sixteen-year-old Xu Qingru, born into a scholarly family, witnessed the Japanese invaders slaughter her entire family. Carrying a blood debt and a top-secret list, she abandoned her maiden name and stepped into the endless darkness, transforming into an elite agent known as "Petrel." Back in isolated Shanghai, she becomes a double agent who walks the knife's edge. On one side, sh 1.4kReads8.8Score147Shelves
- 24 War of Resistance: A Katyusha from the Start, and You Call That Food Delivery? 抗战：开局喀秋莎，这叫送外卖？ [Farming]+ [Troop Building]+ [Fast-Paced] (Already expanded to 300,000 words, so feel free to jump in) Qin Yue transmigrates to a parallel world during the War of Resistance and finds himself in the Battle of Cangyun Ridge. At a critical moment, the System activates. Complete missions to earn rewards. “Choice One: Provide Li Yunlong with artillery support. Reward: Multiple rocket launcher!” “Choice Two: Turn and run. Reward: Cowardly Deserter title!” And so, all of northwest Shanxi is thrown int 6.6kReads8.6Score369Shelves
- 25 Wolves in the Northeast: The Young Sharpshooter 东北狼烟：少年枪神 With the nation in peril and the land shattered, young Zhang Fan, the top student at his school, is forced to take up arms amid the chaos of war. With his exceptional intelligence, calm demeanor, and incredible ability to learn, he gradually becomes a sharpshooter feared across the battlefield. The puppet troops are acting cocky? He puts them in their place on the spot! The Japanese invaders are running rampant? One shot, one kill! The traitors are up to no good? He shows no mercy! From a frail 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Anti-Japanese Special Forces 抗日特战队 To fight the Japanese, you need money, guns, territory, and real ability. Xu Jianfei has all of them. I truly admire the Japanese. How did they manage to last eight years under Xu Jianfei? Let’s see how the Japanese got through those eight years. 7.6kReads7.6Score677Shelves
- 27 In The Disguiser, I Meet Zheng Yaoxian from the Start 人在伪装者，开局和郑耀先接头 [War + Transmigration + Rebirth + System + Urban Fantasy] Guo Ruzhen transmigrates and is reborn as a trainee at the Military Statistics Bureau’s training office. After encountering Yu Manli in a bathhouse, he awakens a System. From then on, the war against Japan gains a top agent whose name strikes terror into the hearts of the Japanese. He is a lieutenant general and station chief in the Military Statistics Bureau. He is the head of Operations at the 76th Office. He is the chief of the Zero Of 184Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 28 A Love Letter in the Loess 黄土情书 In 1982, a severe drought grips northern Shaanxi. Thirty-year-old village teacher Wang Pu squats on a cracked field ridge, clutching the betrothal money his mother has wrapped in red cloth. The last unmarried man of his age in the village has no idea his life is about to change that very night. When he rescues a young woman in a Lenin suit from a collapsed grain depot, the English copy of Jane Eyre in her suitcase tears open his stunted emotional world. When a village teacher’s love for a “troub 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Playing a Spy in a Spy Drama 谍战剧里当特工 The bit-player Zhang Dapao begins by transmigrating into a game world that combines spy dramas. He goes undercover in a passionate modern city, is reborn in a rural village from a bygone era, and becomes a six-faced agent! He also joins Bright Sword, delivering weapons to Li Yunlong. Zheng Yaoxian: “Dapao used to be my pupil. Now he's Lao Jiu!” Yan Shuangying: “I dodged bullets, but he dodged my knife!” Ming Lou: “When you gaze at him, he'll gaze back at you!” Ma Yunfei: “He's the water that slo 3kReads8.9Score178Shelves
- 30 War of Resistance: A Hundredfold Return, Beating the Agent Squad from the Start 抗战：百倍返现：开局吊打特工队 Li Yunlong, a modern special forces soldier, dies and transmigrates into the world of "Drawing Sword"! He becomes Li Yunlong, commander of the Independent Regiment! Brigade Commander: “Li Yunlong, you’ve struck it rich again, you rascal!” Li Yunlong: “Brigade Commander, you know my Independent Regiment is so broke we can barely put food on the table!” Brigade Commander: “Cut the nonsense. You captured plenty of good stuff this time!” System: “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have awakened the Hu 6.9kReads8.7Score479Shelves
- 31 War of Resistance: Blood and Flames 抗战之烽火燃血 Mo Fan, a special forces soldier from the Republic, transmigrates into the brutal Battle of Luodian. Amid the meat grinder of war, he fights shoulder to shoulder with one living veteran after another. He feels the anguish of a shattered homeland and resolves to give his life to save the country and protect his home. Starting with the Battle of Shanghai, he leads China’s patriotic sons to kill the Japanese invaders and reclaim their land. China’s dignity must not be violated. The invaders will pa 273Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 32 Soul Transmigration to Republican China: My Years in the Military Statistics Bureau 魂穿民国：我在军统那些年 Gu Jinzhao transmigrates to the eve of the full-scale War of Resistance and becomes a low-ranking field operative in the Lixing Society's Special Service Division. In this era, when the nation faces mortal peril, Gu Jinzhao has no powerful connections and cannot influence the course of events. All he can do is make his greatest effort to prepare China for an all-out war. 185Reads8.1Score108Shelves
- 33 Yangcheng 飏城 This is just one of countless stories from the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression: sacrifice, passion, fear, and moving moments fill every cell. In this era, even love seems to have been reduced to waiting... 65Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Espionage: I'm the Military Police Captain 谍战：我是宪兵队长 Zhou Zhengqing wakes up one day to find that he has transmigrated. Even more absurdly, he now has the identity of a legitimate heir to Japan's top aristocratic family, the Takasaki clan, and is dropped straight into the military police force of the puppet state of Manchukuo as its captain. At first, all he wants is to keep his head down in this position, work behind the scenes, do as little evil as possible, and live in peace. But once this game of chess begins, there is no turning back. One 4kReads8.0Score288Shelves
- 35 The Queen of the Military Intelligence Bureau 军统女王 [Espionage + political intrigue + wits and strategy + ruthless decisiveness] The bloody odyssey of the Military Statistics Bureau’s queen! She is the knife in Boss Dai’s hand, and the nightmare that haunts his bedside! 1937: Shanghai, a deadly trap Lin Wei, codenamed “Ghost Fox,” arrives in Shanghai and forms the “Fox Thorn” assassination squad within three months. As her qipao swirls, collaborators’ heads roll and Japanese officers lie awake at night. But the wine Nanzo Yunko offers her is lace 12kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves
- 36 War of Resistance: Counterattacking from a Cannon-Fodder Regiment 抗战：从炮灰团开始反攻 Xu Su closes his eyes and opens them to find himself in China's devastating War of Resistance against Japan. A mostly useless System saves his life, but he is powerless in the face of the brutal war. From Jiangnan to the southwest, he retreats all the way. In a small town in western Yunnan, he discovers that he has entered the world of My Chief and My Regiment. The counterattack at Nantianmen, the fierce battle for Changsha, the great counteroffensive across the entire front... The fires of war 2.9kReads8.9Score101Shelves
- 37 Espionage Codename: The Widow 谍战代号：未亡人 No transmigration, no System, no rebirth. Over 1,200 chapters in, I feel like I should look back and add a few words. Hardcore espionage. An experienced reader called it a dark fairy tale, and I think that's a pretty good summary. Is it a wish-fulfillment novel? Absolutely not. With this setting and this story, there's no way to make it fictional, indulge in fantasy, or turn it into feel-good wish fulfillment. All it can offer is desperate last-minute rescues, extreme reversals, and narrowly esc 11.7kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
- 38 Fighting the Japanese: Father and Son Take Up Arms 抗日之父子上阵 Li Yang was an eight-year veteran. On the night he was discharged, he drank too much because he couldn't bear to leave the army. To his surprise, he transmigrated into the body of a soldier in a company of the Eighth Route Army's 386th Brigade in 1937. And that soldier was an idiot. But Li Yang soon displayed his extraordinary military expertise: he could snipe Japanese soldiers from three hundred meters away with a single shot, and take down three of them by himself in a bayonet fight. When the 1.7kReads8.9Score128Shelves
- 39 Dreaming of the Pearl River 梦回珠江 This work is based on the revolutionary history of the Guangdong Army. Its characters and relationships were inspired by stories passed down by word of mouth among the elders. It tells of soldiers’ choices between their country and their love during the revolutionary era… 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Snow Leopard: Building the Strongest Elite Regiment Through Robbery 雪豹：靠着抢劫打造最强精锐团 I transmigrated into the world of Snow Leopard and became Zhou Weiguo. When the Berlin Military Academy invited him, he refused. “Why waste time on that when I could kill a few more Japanese devils?” There were so many traitors and lackeys. Wouldn’t killing a few and taking their money be better than going over there? As for Takeshita Shun... Takeshita Shun formed a squad. They admired each other, and assimilation was better than extermination. If he refused, Zhou would kill his whole family fi 11.5kReads8.3Score870Shelves
- 41 Republican China: From Fake Young Master to Warlord 民国，从冒牌少爷到一方军阀 [No System + Republican Era + Multiple Heroines + Espionage in the Later Story] After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, landlord's son Li Mingyuan, who had paid for a trainee patrol officer's post, set sail for his new assignment with his newlywed wife Shen Shutong, his attendant Fugui, and the old family servant Wang Guilan. They were attacked by river bandits along the way. The original Li Mingyuan was killed, while Fugui, the protagonist and a modern-day special forces soldier, was knocked unco 11.9kReads7.7Score1.1kShelves
- 42 Espionage: I Pulled Boss Dai’s Rickshaw and Became a Juntong Station Chief 谍战：拉车戴老板，我成军统站长 Situ Li was reborn into an age of war. He was starving and worked as a lowly cart driver. He knew how to survive, but had no connections to get ahead. He thought he was destined to remain an insignificant nobody, but by a twist of fate, he ended up saving a big shot from the military intelligence service. The boss said, “Graduate from the military academy within a month, and I’ll give you an official position.” Before Situ Li could even protest, he found himself at the military academy. Then he 8.1kReads8.5Score510Shelves
- 43 Conquering the World, Starting with A Garland of Mountain Flowers 从高山花环开始纵横世界 [The Floral Ring on the Mountain + Lightning Operation + The Counterattack Campaign + A Shared Universe + Soldiers Sortie] Xu Can transmigrates to the early days of the Counterattack Campaign. There are only two months left before the Ninth Company heads to the front! The pampered young master Zhao Mengsheng is about to arrive, but Xu Can has only one thing on his mind. First, make sure Company Commander Liang Sanxi gets home to see his mother and wife! In his previous life, he watched helples 38.2kReads8.7Score1.7kShelves
- 44 Legend of a Valiant General in the War Against Japan 抗日之悍将传奇 A wall that will never fall, forged from flesh and blood! A car accident sends him transmigrating back to an era of heartbreaking heroism. Liu Weiguo refuses to surrender. With unwavering conviction, he assembles an armed force and vows to teach the enemy a bitter lesson. But with the enemy's overwhelming firepower and his own troops suffering severe losses, what should Liu Weiguo do? With nothing but his own flesh and blood, he will forge a soldier's glory! Come on, artillery fire! Let's see wh 176Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 45 War of Resistance: From the Start, I'm a Battalion Commander with No Troops 抗战：开局光杆营长 [Front-line combat + no System] Qin Zhonghua, a retired special forces soldier, woke up one day to find that he had transmigrated to the Battle of Shanghai. Before he could figure out what was happening, the Japanese launched an attack. Starting as a battalion commander with just one soldier to his name, he went on to become a warlord who dominated an entire region. Using military knowledge far ahead of its time, he led his troops in killing Japanese soldiers by the thousands. 73Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 46 Years Without Regrets 无悔岁月 In 1936, dusk settled over Xiangcheng, steeping it in the smell of rust and blood. The late-autumn wind cut like a knife, piercing to the bone. Xu Chengyang tugged down the brim of his police cap. The collar of his coarse wool uniform chafed his neck raw. This black uniform was both his prison and his armor… 469Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Espionage in Republican-Era China: Big Brother, Why Make Me a Spy? 民国谍影：大哥，为啥让我做特工 [Ruthless traitor hunting + political intrigue + wits and strategy + multiple identities + pulse-pounding] This is an age of despair, and an age filled with hope. An age of silence and endurance, and an age of cries of resistance. An age of trust, and an age of doubt. We have everything before us, and nothing before us. We are all bound for Heaven, and we are all bound for Hell... This is the Republican Era! It is the twenty-eighth year of the Republican Era. Japanese invaders are ravaging China 17.3kReads8.3Score1.3kShelves
- 48 The Wildflowers of the Battlefield Bloom All the Brighter 战地黄花分外香 Don’t judge it by the rating alone! The story runs from the April 12 counterrevolutionary massacre in the Republic of China era to the founding of New China! The male lead lives three lives in one. He’ll take you into the tangled world of the Republic of China: is he a “nail” planted by the Communist Party, a “poison fang” of the Kuomintang, or an elite agent of Japan’s Tokko? How can he survive between three shifting powers and turn one victory into another? Watch Guo Heyu in action! This work 31Reads5.8Score109Shelves
- 49 War of Resistance: Put Me on the National Airwaves 抗战：给我通电全国 [War of Resistance] [Bright Sword] [Transmigration] [No System] [Hardcore Hero] [Eighth Route Army] [Base Area] [War of Liberation] [Passionate] [Rise to Power] [Expanding the Army] [Captured Spoils] Please trust Liu Shouxin to keep his word. 21.7kReads8.3Score804Shelves
- 50 Yongzheng's Secret Blade 雍正暗刃 Political intrigue + Assassination + Romance + Court drama. The Blood-Drop Earring, the most ruthless and secretive assassination unit in Yongzheng's Imperial Bodyguard Office, strikes fear into all who hear its name. Chen Ying, its sharpest hidden blade, is ordered to slaughter a loyal minister's entire household. But he discovers that his victims are not rebels: they are a lone official who knows the royal family's deepest secrets. The dying man's question, “Who will silence you when your turn 338Reads—Score104Shelves
