There were seventeen portraits hanging on the wall of the secret room, each one of a damned person. The 26-year-old eldest princess Qin Zhao spent ten years sending them away one by one. After the wall was empty, she founded the Dark Court, which specializes in investigating corruption from the capital to the whole country. Some people say that she covers the sky with one hand. She said: "I will not wrong a good person, nor let a bad person go." Princess Beiyan raised a glass to her at the banquet and smiled: "I have heard about your reputation in the north." Qin Zhao shot back: "You have heard less than half."
She was twenty-six years old and the walls were empty, but the world was far from clean.
