When she opens her eyes, she has become the powerful Grand Princess Regent, who holds sway over the court.
On her first day at court, she hears someone planning to strike during the route to the sacrificial ceremony. They cry “Long live!” to her face, while secretly thinking about how the carriage will pass through Camphor Tree Alley three days from now.
Fortunately, she can hear everyone's thoughts.
The ministers' double books, the eunuchs' plot to pass along a knife, the hidden figure who extinguishes the lamps... She slowly checks the accounts of every schemer in court, page by page.
In the hall, the whole court kneels. She listens with lowered eyes, then writes her vermilion ruling: Approved.
Court intrigue, mind-reading, investigations, slow burn, 1v1 | The heroine isn't saintly, and the antagonists are clever.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
