The Moonlit Calamity

She lays a deadly trap, and he sees through the deception. She plays the helpless victim, and he recognizes the act.

Three clashes on the brink of death, four games of political chess.

Until she reveals the surviving pages of a poison manual before him, and he slides over a bloodstained secret dossier.

“Miss Shen, want to find out what it feels like to be my accomplice?”

They swear their pact in blood and wield forged evidence as a blade.

This is a war between two lonely avengers, gambling their lives on the edge of each other’s blades for the chance at true love.

Teaser Three: Foggy Reversals, Double-Sided Bait

Everyone in the capital knows Shen Zhiwei, the orphaned daughter of the General of the North’s household, as a gentle, pitiful beauty in poor health.

Everyone, that is, except Prince Jin’s heir, Xiao Yanzhou.

He saw her lick the edge of a blade on a rainy night and stride over the Ministry of Justice’s high walls with the lightest of steps.

While everyone thought he was her prey, she was lured into an even deeper game of chess by him.

“You’re investigating the Cui clan, and I’m investigating the case by imperial decree. Our blades are aimed at the same head.”

She thought it was a partnership.

Until she discovered that the witness she sought, the poison arts she unraveled, even the secret manual she recovered...

Every step had landed on the escape route he had laid out for her long ago.

In this ordeal disguised as revenge, whose game will collapse first, and whose heart will be lost?