Drifting with the Tide: A Great Military Strategist

To be clear, when this book was first published, it wasn't as well-known as other major works by renowned authors. It only generated some buzz because the author was a woman, and because it dealt with a genre rarely explored by women—national power struggles—despite its exceptional quality.

Hello Mr. Liu, I am a sophomore in college and one of your many readers. Actually, I'm a long-time reader. When I was in fourth grade, my cousin got married, and my cousin's wife had a copy of your novel, *The Strategist*, on her dressing table. I was bored at the time, so I picked it up.

I read the physical book back then, and I thought it was incredibly good. It's amazing how many years have passed...

I was enjoying this book so much; it was practically a masterpiece in my eyes. But as I read on, one point became incredibly disturbing and almost killed me. Earlier in the book, the author described the protagonist and a woman who were about to get married. Then, this woman was raped and murdered, and the protagonist's revenge on the main perpetrator was to erase some of her memories?

After reading this book, I'm finding it hard to find anything else worth reading.

Those who didn't read it carefully are really missing out. And those who gave up on the book because of the first-person perspective, you absolutely must go back and read it again. It's a masterpiece, a masterpiece no less than Nirvana in Fire.

Are some people in the book club idiots? I looked at the table of contents... It's a book from 2005... Not even 2010... It's fifteen years old, okay?? I'm suffocating at their intelligence. Using today's standards to attack a book from over a decade ago, truly astounding.

This was my introduction to online novels, and it's exceptionally well-written. The characters are well-developed, the world-building is complete and grand, the plot twists are logical and refreshing, and while the writing style has elements of classical literature, it's not obscure or difficult to understand. In my heart, this is a classic.

To be honest, the flaws in the beginning of this book are no less than those in today's simplistic, light novels. I don't know how they managed to hype it up, relying on this kind of idiotic and overly sentimental approach to drive the plot. Take the scene where the male protagonist interrogates Liang Wan about murdering Liu Piaoxiang (his fiancée).

Many people misunderstand this novel. Considering its historical context, it was a rare gem back then. After all, it was incredibly difficult to find a novel that wasn't smutty, mindless, or full of overpowered protagonists. What else could you do? Read mindless, overpowered stories about Tang San and his friends?