After Unlocking the Art of Strategic Deception, I Talked the Great Powers into Ruin

Ye Xiao transmigrates to a parallel world and establishes the Strategic Deception Bureau on the day he graduates from the National University of Defense Technology.

The bureau has official positions and requires a license to work. The better your acting, the higher your rank.

As its first director, Ye Xiao lays out the Three Principles of Strategic Deception:

1: If you can play poor, never show off.

2: If you can claim to be behind, never say you're ahead.

3: If you can play dumb, never reveal what you know.

Scene 1:

At a UN meeting, our representative says with utmost sincerity,

“This really is a floating offshore fishing platform.”

The other countries in the audience: “...All right, Brother Long. If you say so.”

Then they check the satellite feed and see carrier-based aircraft taking off and landing.

Scene 2:

The navy sees a new ship for the first time.

“Squad leader, is this really a fishing boat?”

“Yes.”

“But it has vertical launch tubes!”

“Those are civilian barbecue grills, for cooking squid.”