Eryialda
In the shadow of Chang'an's lantern-lit streets, two girls without names are taken into the House of Lingering Fragrance. A place where beauty is bartered and innocence does not survive.
One is quiet as moonlight. The other, warm as spring.
Bound by hunger, secrets, and a fragile dream of freedom, they learn to survive in a world woven from silk and lies.
But when fate brushes too close to the throne, their lives are drawn into the heart of the imperial palace where whispers can kill, and even a smile can be a sentence.
Behind crimson walls, something is lost.
Something is taken.
And in its place, something colder is born.
Carrying a secret that could destroy her, a woman steps into the Forbidden Palace, not as she was, but as something far more dangerous.
Because in a court where love is a weakness and truth is a weapon,
survival is not enough.
To keep what remains...
she will have to rise.