The Art of Mechanisms in the Great Fish Kingdom

The Great Fish Kingdom falls, and its princess returns with secret arts, making Mount Li her tomb and the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor her trap.

The Profound Yin Stone seals the dragon veins, the Nine-Curve Needle cuts short the Qin dynasty, terracotta warriors conceal the souls of the dead, and a pool of mercury entombs their obsessions. She proceeds with careful, calculated steps, using an earth-shattering secret art to drain the Qin Empire's fortune. Yet when every mechanism is finally broken, she sees the truth: the blade of hatred wounds its wielder most, and the backlash of secret arts ultimately devours those closest to her.

Her beloved bleeds to death, her clan becomes a sacrifice. She wins the realm and loses everything.

As the final tomb-sealing mechanism falls into place, she sinks into a sea of mercury with her secret art, sealing the imperial mausoleum forever and letting old debts and grudges turn to dust.

This is no thrilling tale of revenge, but the answer a woman takes her whole life to understand: no secret art, however potent, can overcome obsession, and no hatred, however deep, can withstand letting go.

At 68,000 words, this tale holds both the secrets hidden for millennia within the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and a mournful, timeless song of redemption and release.