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The Silver Chain of Shanghai Shines White at Night
Short Fiction夜上海之银链照夜白
Pale Brilliant
Under the waning moon on the Bund, the spark tattoo on the slit of Lin Peiyao's cheongsam burned brightly - it was cinnabar mixed with Shen Yanchu's ashes, Bai Jiu's silver chain fragments and Su Xuening's pearl powder. When the whistle broke through the morning fog in 1941, thirty-seven sampans loaded with medicines were sailing along the tattoo pattern towards the bloody dawn.
Under the waning moon on the Bund, the spark tattoo on the slit of Lin Peiyao's cheongsam burned brightly - it was cinnabar mixed with Shen Yanchu's ashes, Bai Jiu's silver chain fragments and Su Xuening's pearl powder. When the whistle broke through the morning fog in 1941, thirty-seven sampans loaded with medicines were sailing along the tattoo pattern towards the bloody dawn.
The Bloody Chess Game of Yongchang
Short Fiction永昌之血色棋局
Pale Brilliant
In the autumn of the seventeenth year of Yongchang, Prince Xiao Jinghuan died violently in the Zichen Palace. During the autopsy, Shen Zhiwei, a female official of the Shang Palace Bureau, found a piece of burlap under the four-clawed golden dragon robe - this fatal fabric was actually the same as the evidence in the witchcraft case of Concubine Zhen eighteen years ago. Blood-colored jade pendant, golden nanmu chessboard, Jialuo incense ashes... Each corpse is a carefully crafted puzzle, pointing to the darkest secret of the Zhao Dynasty: Emperor Xiao Chengsi and Youzhou King Xiao Chengye, the twins who were transferred three times, have lived in the cage of other people's identities since birth.
In the autumn of the seventeenth year of Yongchang, Prince Xiao Jinghuan died violently in the Zichen Palace. During the autopsy, Shen Zhiwei, a female official of the Shang Palace Bureau, found a piece of burlap under the four-clawed golden dragon robe - this fatal fabric was actually the same as the evidence in the witchcraft case of Concubine Zhen eighteen years ago. Blood-colored jade pendant, golden nanmu chessboard, Jialuo incense ashes... Each corpse is a carefully crafted puzzle, pointing to the darkest secret of the Zhao Dynasty: Emperor Xiao Chengsi and Youzhou King Xiao Chengye, the twins who were transferred three times, have lived in the cage of other people's identities since birth.