Chapter 2 · free to read
She had named the ministers. Now she had to survive the silence that followed.
But the throne's ear had begun to keep secrets of its own.
A ledger that lies to the right reader is deadlier than any truth.
She had given the throne a ledger written to blind it. But the Empress Dowager had spent sixty years learning to read the backs of things.
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