My name is Shen Yin. I’m the lowest-ranking maid in the Eastern Palace, assigned to sweep and clean.
On the seventh night after the Crown Prince’s beloved died, I heard a cold laugh from inside her coffin. “Can’t you even tell an empty coffin when you see one? Once I’m back in the Eastern Palace, the first thing I’ll do is kill that Shen stand-in.”
My right ear grew warm. I could hear the dead speak.
I reached out and pressed against the gap in the coffin lid. It was empty inside.
The Crown Prince treated me as her substitute. He made me read her books, imitate her way of speaking, and even practice smiling just like the portrait.
He didn’t know I had heard the voice from her coffin.
The next day, I went to the beloved’s grave with the most famous tomb raider in the capital.
