The Sixth Prince’s White Moonlight

She is the daughter of a disgraced official. Hiding her identity, she searches star charts and case files for the truth behind her family’s slaughter. He is a prince of the imperial house, treading carefully as he stakes his life on a game of power and deadly intrigue. A clerk’s disappearance on a rainy night draws Gu Qingci into the orbit of the Sixth Prince, Li Zhao. She carries an astrolabe, with a blood-soaked code from fifteen years ago concealed between her fingers; He pores over case files, years of patient restraint and sharp ambition settled in his eyes. “Your Highness, do you believe the stars foretell disaster?” “I put more faith in the treachery of the human heart.” From bizarre cases in Chang’an to secrets of the former dynasty, from missing tax silver to ghostly flames at the imperial mausoleum, they unravel one “accident” after another, only to expose the bloodiest darkness beneath a glorious dynasty. When the clues point to a sealed palace hall no one dares mention, when the shadow of “the Master” falls across the throne, she grips the half of a secret key her father left behind, and he takes up his bloodstained sword. “Qingci, if you had to choose between me and the realm…” “I choose you.” He clears the thorns before the Dragon Throne and tramples the bones of conspiracy, not for a kingdom stretching a thousand miles, but for the eyes that lit up the darkness on that rainy night. “Your Highness, the one you’re protecting is the child of a traitor.” “The one I’m protecting is the only light I have in the dark.” ◇ One unsolved case after another, plots within plots, every page a wager with death. ◇ Power struggles at court, hidden devotion, and thunder in every exchanged glance. ◇ The political intrigue of Nirvana in Fire meets the strange cases of The Story of Minglan, tempered with the tragic lyricism of Royal Nirvana.