In the third year of Yonghui's reign, the imperial physician's daughter Jiang Wanye held a blood-stained silver needle against the throat of the regent. She didn't know that this man who watched her entire family being slaughtered with cold eyes had always hidden in his arms half a jade jewel that matched her marriage certificate - it was the token he had taken from her body when he executed the Jiang family.
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