Azure Cloud Garments

The Wei and Du families of Jingzhao stood five feet from heaven.

Luo Yu, the adopted daughter of the Wei clan of Jingzhao, one of the great families of Guanzhong, was a superb archer. On the surface, she was a refined young lady of a noble family; in secret, she was a mischievous little terror. Du Ruofei, a son of the Du family, was easygoing and cheerful, with formidable martial skills. He and Luo Yu went from friends to lovers. Under the pressure of their families, the two young people held fast to their original convictions. But they never expected that, step by step, they would fall into perilous traps and ultimately become pawns in someone else's scheme.

The Shadow Society, a notorious assassin organization with countless experts and ever-growing influence, had tangled ties to the two youths, ties that could not be severed or sorted out.

Behind the strange cases cropping up one after another in Chang'an lay the turbulent political intrigues of the early Tang dynasty. The young woman pierced the fog and saw history and the martial world waiting in the dawn ahead.

[Female-Led Martial Arts Mystery, Set in Early Tang Chang'an]

Chang'an's broad avenue joins narrow lanes, where ox carts, white horses, and seven-fragrant carriages pass.

If we can be paired like mandarin ducks, we would not fear death. I envy the mandarin ducks, not the immortals.