On the Shangyuan Festival night of Yonghe Year Thirteen, Chang'an blazed with light as bright as day.
Chancellor Shen Youzhi hosted the "Thousand Lantern Banquet," inviting the powerful and promising figures of half the city. At the height of the feast, a national jade seal symbolizing supreme authority vanished without a trace, and the gates of the chancellor's residence slammed shut.
Among the trapped guests, six were particularly unusual:
Xie Yungui, a frail qin player, with a poisoned dagger hidden in his sleeve
Shen Yuexin, a haughty young heiress, with a secret letter from the previous dynasty hidden in her chambers
Xiao Jingyan, a loyal commander, with an enemy nation's emblem tattooed on his back
Su Wanyue, a cool and distant physician, with murderer's needles in her medicine case
Lin Moshu, a wealthy merchant from Jiangnan, whose eyes reflected everyone's date of death
Chu Hongxiu, the foremost dancer, with a vow to restore the dynasty branded on her ankle
A bloodstained silk letter fell from above. It bore just two lines:
"Eighteen years ago, the Prince of Zhennan's residence: 137 lives."
"Tonight, the chancellor's residence: 137 guests."
"Find the culprit, or everyone dies with them."
When the first corpse was found beside the red coral, this "play" in the name of revenge truly began. Everyone was acting, everyone had secrets, every tender whisper might be laced with poison, and every helping hand might conceal a blade.
And deep in the ruins of the Prince of Zhennan's residence, a truth buried under blood and lies for eighteen years now waits to be illuminated by tonight's flames, or buried forever.
This historical suspense novel tells the secrets of everyone in the "Feast of Thousand Lanterns". The story is thrilling, strange and vivid! Worth recommending! 👍👍[Add one to bookshelf][Please pay attention]👍👍
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