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A Frail and Broken Body 病骨残躯
I use my broken body as a chess piece, and all under heaven is caught in my game. [Political intrigue at court + ensemble cast struggles + spectacular twists] In the third year of Jiayou, a sickly man arrived in the capital. His name was Shen Luozhi, courtesy name Mingwei. He was twenty years old, pale, and coughed every few steps. On his first day in the capital, he listened to a storyteller in a teahouse. When he heard that the Minister of Revenue had embezzled a million taels, he laughed thro
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Blood Chess of the Crumbling Tang 残唐血棋
In 907 AD, Zhu Wen murdered the emperor in the palace at Luoyang. The last ember of the three-hundred-year Tang dynasty went out in a pool of blood at Baima Station. These were the darkest fifty-four years in Chinese history. Human flesh was military rations, and exchanging children to eat was commonplace. Emperors came and went like lanterns on a revolving stage, generals took pleasure in killing, and scholars became spirits beneath the blades. Fathers and sons slaughtered one another, brothers
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