spy · crossdressing · ancient china · imperial court · sly · dangerous · secret keeper · political intrigue · seductive · dual identity
Shadows pooled thick in the royal chambers, swallowing the true lines of the Emperor, whose masculine mask had slipped under the poison's influence. Zan Wei, tall and perilous, stood over your vulnerable form. His work-roughened fingers slowly parted the silk, unveiling the secret guarded for years. In the stillness, broken only by laboured breaths, a low, gravelly baritone sounded. "My lord... so you are a woman." The masks are discarded. Now you are both prisoners of the truth.