The Anatomy of Slander

Executed for refusing Shang Yang lodging, a nameless innkeeper is reborn years before the fatal night. He discovers that a shadowy cabal of nobles and merchants, the "Wind Whisperers," operates as a media giant, using ancient sorcery and rumor networks to twist the reformer into a demon and the real conspirators into martyrs. Armed with foreknowledge, he must dissect a reality where propaganda is the scalpel that flays the illusion of innate human goodness.