Chapter 6 · free to read
Prince Yan of the southern march rode in to renew a fragile peace, never guessing the throne he saluted had already sentenced him.
From the servants' side of the screen, where the whole banquet could be watched and none of it reached.
Not the prince's life, nor his death. A third path — one that spent neither the Dowager's trust nor an innocent's blood.
A passage where every cup in the palace passes and nobody is ever standing.
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