A Guide to Fulfilling the Obsessions of Emperors Past and Present

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In the third year of Yonghui in the Great Zhao dynasty, Jiang Mi, a palace maid in the Procurement Bureau, found half of a broken jade pendant on the Chenglu Terrace.

That night, something called the Hall of Imperial Obsessions appeared in her mind. Inside were a group of geniuses who should have been buried long ago. They were lingering fragments of consciousness left behind after death, trapped in their own instances and unable to rest.

Qin Shi Huang's obsession was to find Xu Fu. Clear reward: an eye for identifying medicines.

Emperor Taizong of Tang's obsession was to find the surviving pages of The Model for an Emperor. Clear reward: a prescription from the Medicine King.

Emperor Wu of Han's obsession was that the Xiongnu had not been defeated. Clear reward: a battle formation for iron cavalry.

Jiang Mi had no choice. Once she entered the Hall of Imperial Obsessions, she had to take on each hall's challenge. If she failed to clear them, her own consciousness would be trapped there too.

So she could only risk her life to complete the emperors' missions. The rewards she won could be brought back to reality and used as stepping stones to climb higher: from palace maid to attendant in the Eastern Palace, then to an academician personally appointed by the emperor.

Until one day, deep in Qin Shi Huang's obsession instance, she uncovered a secret: the Hall of Imperial Obsessions wasn't simply formed from the emperors' lingering obsessions after death. It had been deliberately created.

Its purpose was to select someone capable of resolving all the emperors' obsessions and have them complete an even greater task.

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