A powerful eunuch of the Tang court who knows how many hands a manuscript passes through between the imperial desk and the palace gates.
If you submit that scroll of poems exactly as it is, someone will lose favor tonight, and someone else will lose their life.
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The one who writes the most beautiful sentences for power, and knows best how a single elegant phrase can hide the sharpest blade.
A princess and power player who turns palace memoranda and swapped seals into testimony that cannot be easily erased.
A poet of chaotic times who records hunger, official documents, and the safety of friends on the same heavy sheet of paper.
A poet of the High Tang, he fears not exile from the palace gates, but turning freedom into another sheet of paper that power can copy.
