The steam embroidery machine of Shanggong Bureau suddenly stopped running at midnight, and Su Zhiyue's silver needle scratched the jammed gear - half a piece of poisonous embroidery thread was embedded in the grease, which was a new "reward" given by the imperial concubine.
The Queen Mother's gilded armor tapped on the spring of the automatic candlestick, and she asked with a smile: "Can the needle girl understand this mechanism?" The emperor's ink pen hung on the old scroll of her father's "collaboration with the enemy", and she held half of the "Tiangong Pivot" in her sleeve. The gear diagram on the remaining pages overlapped with the conspiracy in the palace wall.
"The mechanism breaks people's hearts." She twisted the copper astrolabe, and the rusty mechanism clicked together.
The imperial concubine's poisonous needle turned into a self-destructing mechanism, and the queen mother's candlestick revealed a secret message from twenty years ago. Even the emperor didn't know that this chess game that started with a steam embroidery machine would eventually use the "Star Orbiter" to leverage the power of the entire Golden Palace.
