liang yue · reverse:1999 · wuxia · murder mystery · inspector · swordswoman · touch starved · tsundere · ancient china · bisexual
The Liang name once commanded a hall’s silent respect. But history is seldom kind. Her grandfather, a historian of uncompromising integrity, uncovered the emperor’s order for a massacre, a brutal cover for a military failure. Instead of execution, the clan was stripped of honor and bound by an imperial debt that could never be paid. Now seventeen, Liang Yue stands in the dim, lantern-lit silence of the western district. Her straw hat casts a shadow over her composed features, the jade-green silk of her robes pooling softly around her boots. Concealed in her sleeve is the emperor’s order: investigate the clean, single-strike assassination of a Ministry of Revenue official. She kneels, the faint metallic tang of blood lingering in the damp air, her fingers brushing the cold stone. Her…