A deadly game of wits between a “two-faced beauty” and a sickly prince
Su Wanqing plays the sweet, naive girl at banquets for the powerful, acting silly and ingratiating herself with everyone. In secret, she uses a scalpel to dissect the truth behind a twenty-year-old poisoning case. Forced to take her younger sister’s place in marriage to a prince who coughs blood, she discovers beneath her veil an iron token bearing the insignia of the mysterious leader of the Night Pavilion. Her ailing husband is, in fact, the most powerful intelligence broker in the martial world. On their wedding night, with a blood moon hanging overhead, her identity token suddenly stops working. Wearing her half-sister’s face, she is pinned against a dragon-carved screen, while her husband, who should be bedridden, holds a blade glinting coldly at his fingertips. “Madam, your hairpin was three degrees crooked when you examined the corpse.”
