Late Ming: A Fake Eunuch Has Slipped into the Imperial Harem

Consort Zheng is as alluring as a peach blossom. Her personal eunuch, Chen Huo, and his younger twin brother, Wang Shui, who serves in the Embroidered Uniform Guard, are identical twins.

After years of grueling training in the Guard’s special program, the brothers have become highly skilled fighters. They survive the trials by the skin of their teeth. The elder brother is castrated and sent to the palace as a eunuch to serve Consort Zheng; the younger joins the Embroidered Uniform Guard and becomes the trusted aide of the man who killed their father.

The brothers become entangled in the late Ming’s most bizarre case. Before long, the eunuch brother disappears, and his identical twin, Wang Shui, takes his place at Consort Zheng’s side. From then on, one baffling case after another unfolds…