Water Margin: Qi Tongwei, No Willing Pawn

In Jizhou of the Great Song, Qi Tongwei is trapped in a death cell, to be executed in the marketplace three days hence. In his past life he was a pawn, trampled at will; in this life, at the brink of death, he takes up the blade, using evil to counter evil. He dismantles Song Jiang's amnesty scheme, glimpses the catastrophic Jingkang upheaval, and makes move after move between the court and the jianghu. I will no longer be that pawn casually moved aside; I will sit in the chair beyond the chessboard! — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Water Margin: Qi Tongwei, No Willing Pawn — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠