The General's Dead Daughter

"She died on a cold dock with a bullet in her back. She woke up in an ancient dynasty with poison in her veins."

Elite intelligence operative Mara Voss spent a decade navigating shadows and trusting no one, until her partner betrayed her over an enigmatic jade artifact. Instead of the grave, she awakens ten centuries in the past inside the body of Shen Yuelan, a sheltered nineteen-year-old noblewoman poisoned after stumbling across military secrets sold from her own home. Armed with an operative’s tactical mind, zero knowledge of court etiquette, and a sharp tongue, Mara must play the fragile invalid just long enough to uncover who wanted Yuelan dead. Her investigation collides head-on with Xiao Jingheng, the Emperor’s most feared investigator. Ruthless, brilliant, and haunted by his brother’s execution in a frontier massacre, Jingheng suspects Yuelan’s celebrated father of high treason. He expects a meek noble daughter he can break in an afternoon; instead, he meets a woman who identifies forged seals at a glance, stitches arterial wounds without blinking, and looks down the length of his blade without fear. When forged mobilization dispatches threaten to trigger an empire-wide bloodbath, their clash of wits turns into an uneasy alliance. Trapped in close quarters across burning alleys and frozen mountain passes, mutual suspicion shifts into an electric, slow-burning obsession. But in a court where every smile hides wolfsbane and every sealed order is a death warrant, the greatest danger isn't outsmarting a corrupt minister, it’s falling for the one man sworn to bring down her house.