Tea Strategy

[Mystery and crime-solving + face-slapping revenge + love triangle and heartbreak + palace and household intrigue + powerful families + court and kingdom]

For a century, the Mu Ming Teahouse had been an established business bearing a plaque bestowed by the imperial family. Eight years ago, a mysterious blaze nearly wiped it out, and its elderly owner died on the spot.

The Mu family’s twin son, Mu Chengjin, survived, but became a vegetable, barely breathing. Yet less than half a month later, the seemingly otherworldly young man appeared in white, distributing porridge on the street with a crowd of servants. Not only did Mu Ming Teahouse survive, it went on to secure its place as the city’s leading teahouse. Every noblewoman in the city became infatuated with his godlike looks.

“Look this way, my dear Mu!” “Chengjin! Chengjin!”

Xiao Heng, the Chief Justice of the Court of Judicial Review, grew suspicious after reading the case file about a censor who had died after drinking the Mu family’s “Snow-Capped Green.” He went to Mu Ming Teahouse to investigate and seal it off, only to be stopped by Prince Yong, the leading contender to inherit the throne. Had the prince taken an interest in Mu Zhizhou, the Mu family’s daughter?

The case led to the South Frontier’s deadly “Drunken Immortal Herb,” but the identity of the real culprit remained a mystery. Had the mastermind behind the events of that year begun to stir again?

Mu Chengjin, whom every noblewoman in the city wanted to marry, was still a vegetable. The person they had all seen over the years was actually Mu Zhizhou, disguised as a man!

Neither Xiao Heng nor Mu Zhizhou knew that their true identities were about to turn the world upside down…

Xiao Heng: The law may be blind, but I am not.

Mu Zhizhou: Lord Xiao, do you dare?

Pei Yu: Mu Zhizhou, don’t you remember who I am?

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Xiao Heng: Her tea is moonlight tempered on a blade’s edge.