In the winter of the seventeenth year of Taiping, there was never enough charcoal fire in the most remote room of the Imperial Medical Office.
I curled up on the couch and listened to the hushed discussions of the palace maids outside the window:
"Have you heard? The Princess Regent was in the school grounds today. She fired three arrows at once, and they all hit the bull's-eye a hundred paces away!"
"Really, women should not give way to men..."
I close my eyes. The "heroine" they refer to is my muscles, my bones, and the killing skills I have honed over the past twenty years.
My name is A Gui, the head of the late emperor's secret guard, codenamed "Faceless".
Three years ago, on the night when the late emperor passed away, I, who should have been martyred, was snatched away by a strange soul - Li Zhaoyang, the frail and bedridden eldest princess who had been bedridden all year round, used forbidden magic to imprison my soul in his exhausted body, while he took over my steel and iron body.
Today, he is the powerful regent princess. And I am the "crazy and useless queen" who keeps a secret in the palace.
