[Intangible Cultural Heritage, Ruthless Revenge, Strong Female Lead, Powerful Couple in a Tormented Romance, Class Upheaval, Patriotism, Time-Loop Paradox, Body Double]
The day I transmigrated into the life of a mute courtesan, I tore apart the system that trained women to obey!
Feng Xiyao, a modern guqin inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, was restoring the Forbidden City’s forbidden instrument, the Nine Heavens Ringed Jade.
When she opened her eyes, she had become a scapegoat mute courtesan in the Xuanxi Dynasty, her voice locked away by a restrictive collar!
On the brink of death, she awakened to her power: broken strings gathered in her palm, forming weapons based on the 64 hexagrams.
The Qian zither called down thunder to shatter the Music Bureau, while the Kun zither raised earthen shields to lead 300 courtesans out of a sea of flames!
She used her heritage to slay gods: teaching the women of the brothels to poison the five notes and garrote corrupt officials with silk strings.
The abbreviated tablature took shape as blades of sound, and bloodied strings shook the nine tiers of the palace to pieces.
The deranged regent gripped her throat and sneered, “Your music can only be the blade I use to kill my mother.”
The lovesick prince carved out his heart as a sacrifice: “Sister, use my blood for your strings… I beg you, never stop playing.”
A hundred thousand corpses from the former dynasty awoke to her music. The Blood Phoenix cult leader laughed wildly: “You’re nothing but a sacrifice for my restoration.”
A bronze tablet inscribed with “No zither is nobler than another” appeared in a Chinese exhibition case. In its reflection, the lingering souls of two kings intertwined…
“History is written by the victors? No! It is rewritten with the bloodied strings of the one who wields the zither!”
