What would you do if one day you discovered you were a stand-in?
Not living in place of one person, but three.
Nan Xu had no idea. She only knew that before Qing Ci died, she had told her, “Go home for me, and live well.”
So Nan Xu became Shen Qingci: the legitimate daughter of the Chancellor’s household, missing for eight years.
But there was already another stand-in in the family: Shen Qinglian, the adopted daughter who had been living Qing Ci’s life since she was eight.
Two stand-ins, one family. Did it matter who was real and who was fake?
What mattered was the secret phrase the Empress Dowager whispered to her: “A startled swan beneath the moon, reflected in the light.”
The Prince Regent told her, “I’m looking for someone.”
And the man who had destroyed the Southern Kingdom stood right before her.
She thought she was living someone else’s life. She had no idea that from the moment she was born, she had been a pawn on someone else’s board.
This was her ninth cycle.
She had failed the previous eight times. Someone had died every time.
Could she succeed this time?
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