[The rating is low because the book has only just received its first ratings!!]
[Sunny, lively legitimate daughter × aloof, taciturn, levelheaded heir] [Light mystery + dual identities + dual identities]
Xue Yuwan, daughter of the richest family in the capital, has had plenty to worry about lately. First, bolts of precious Yunjin brocade in the storeroom mysteriously burst into flames. Then the silver bangle left by her mother began to grow inexplicably hot. More bizarre still, on every full-moon night, people saw a blood-red dragon wandering near the imperial mausoleum.
Shen Wenyan, heir to a title in the northern frontier, was ordered to investigate the case in secret. He looked coldly upon this merchant's daughter, who talked constantly about “ledger prices,” only to discover that she could always uncover clues in the most unlikely details:
• Burned embroidery conceals coded messages from the northern frontier
• Half of a map left behind by a missing embroiderer reveals shocking coordinates when pieced together
• “Counterfeit” antiques passing through a pawnshop bear markings identical to those found on the dead
The merchant's daughter cracks the case: She uses abacus beads to work through the clues and cosmetics to mark them
The heir plots his moves: He uses a chessboard to control the capital and probes people's hearts at banquets hosted by the powerful
When the two follow the clues and push open the stone door to the underground palace beneath the imperial mausoleum, they are stunned to discover...
It is all closely connected to the “embroiderers' disappearance case” that rocked the court twenty years ago...
