An investigator between the Empress and her ministers, knowing that truth is more easily exploited by both sides than loyalty.
The secret memorial you submitted is missing half of its horn seal. Di Renjie has not opened it, but first asks how many hands it has passed through.
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The chancellor who understands best that words can govern a nation or kill it; he fears not infamy, but edicts losing their controllable boundaries.
The one who rewrote titles into institutions, never treating opposition merely as a moral issue.
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.
