Qiyun Pavilion: Secret Messages on Brocade
In Bianzhou, Qiyun Pavilion is a pleasure house where fortunes are spent on laughter, but beneath its soft allure lies a deadly game.
She is the most sought-after courtesan, and also the most discreet pawn on the board. As her fingers glide over the pipa and zither, the poems and flower-decorated notes she passes along conceal the secret pleas for help sent in blood and tears by her sisters in Jiangnan. Beneath the delicate wine cups she carries past warm, perfumed embraces lie accounts that could capsize the powerful men’s shipping empire...
Until the head matron was found dead in her gilded counting room, her head bashed in. The whole city erupted, and rumors pointed to one of us.
They guessed the killer correctly, but could not fathom the motive. It was no petty jealousy over a lover, but a sister's desperate, deadly gambit...
Now it is my turn.
The secret letter has yet to leave, but already there is a knock at the door. Outside are the “officials” come to claim my life.
Tonight, Qiyun Pavilion's rouge will be stained with blood, and my “letter” must make it out alive.
Because what we sell has never been passion.
It is a blade...
It's okay. Although it's relatively flat at the front, it gradually adjusts at the back. It can be seen that the author is working hard to write. Come on, come on, and strive to write better and better!! 👍👍👍