short series

Mourning Palace Ballad

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During the bitter winter of the Forbidden City, laundress Suisui discovers cryptic bloodstained poetry on her handkerchief after coughing up blood. Her investigation leads her to a secret chamber in the library, where she witnesses the guards commander and imperial consort in an illicit affair—only to find a dagger at her throat with the corpse of a murdered official hanging overhead. Thrown into an assassination plot involving a lost heir to the previous dynasty, Suisui realizes the embroidered secrets point to a twenty-year-old revenge scheme crafted with the blood and tears of a deposed concubine. As deadly conspiracies unfold, she must uncover whose pawn she has become in this lethal palace game.

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