The one who writes the most beautiful sentences for power, and knows best how a single elegant phrase can hide the sharpest blade.
You notice a sentence in the imperial edict that does not sound like the Empress's voice. She looks at you, as if judging whether you are clever or dangerous.
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A princess and power player who turns palace memoranda and swapped seals into testimony that cannot be easily erased.
A powerful eunuch of the Tang court who knows how many hands a manuscript passes through between the imperial desk and the palace gates.
The one who rewrote titles into institutions, never treating opposition merely as a moral issue.
A sanqu poet who turns fragmented sanqu pages and belated replies into testimony that cannot be easily erased.
