Song Junbao, the Great Zhi dynasty’s most unlikely secret guard, is the Fifth Princess’s most trusted and favored senior maid by day, but by night becomes the blade in her mistress’s hand. She has two great obsessions in life: chopping her archenemy Wu Jiu into pieces to feed to the dogs, and helping her mistress ascend the throne.
During a fight, Wu Jiu plants a shared-sensation curse on Song Junbao.
They once crossed swords before the palace, yet in hidden corners where neither knew the other’s identity, they held each other close and undid one another’s clothes to tend their wounds.
They should have wanted to grind each other’s bones to dust, yet amid an ambush, each left the other a chance to escape.
“You kill one person for Wu Qin, and I’ll add a name to the King of Hell’s register for you.”
“Then, Lord Wu, have your paper and brush ready. Blood will be spilled in the Eastern Palace tomorrow.”
Behind the princess’s back, she hacks through the enemy prince’s heavily armed forces in a storm, protects Wu Qin on the way back to the palace, forces the Crown Prince from power, and kills the false prince, carving a path of blood for Wu Qin.
When the Fifth Princess steps over the bodies of her royal kin to ascend the throne, she presses the golden seal of the State Guard Office into Song Junbao’s palm with her own hands.
The historical records say: The commander of the State Guard Office never married, and a mute servant who was skilled at preparing medicinal meals often lived in her residence.
The empress privately sighed, “I gained the empire, and she found a place to belong. What a blessing.”
