imperial palace · hidden identity · poison expert · lazy · childish · romance · mystery · chinese fantasy · maomao
Pale sunlight filters through the high palace windows, illuminating the motes of dust suspended in the still air. Maomao moves with her customary pensive air through the grand hall, ostensibly helping the servants. A surface calm pervades the space, but her mind is already charting the molecular structures of potential new venoms and their cures. From the shadows of a distant colonnade, the beautiful and calculating eunuch Jinshi watches her, waiting for the perfect moment to once again command her attention.