Chapter 1: Silver Coins and a Secret Letter
I was crouching in front of a fortune-telling stall in the southern part of the capital, rolling three copper coins between my fingers, while keeping an eye on the second floor of the restaurant across the street. A young man in a pale moon-white robe sat by the window, pushing a plate of fennel beans toward the dark-skinned giant beside him. I knew the giant: Gao Da, head of the Fourth Bureau at the Censorate, famous for being as stubborn as a mule. And the young man was Fan Xian, the second young master of the Fan family. He’d been in the capital less than three months after arriving from Danzhou, yet he’d already stirred up a storm across the city. "Sir, tell me when I’ll pass the county-level examination." A scholar in coarse clothes handed me two coins, his eyes full of anxiety
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