Breakthrough During Battle

Lu Yao held the wax cloth to the morning light and nearly dropped it. A hidden image appeared in the dye, and it carried her grandmother’s old mark, the same mark she had ignored for years. She had spent four years inside a male-only school, passing as a man and running male-energy power training that could crack her body if she slipped once. That work kept her alive. It also kept her close to the elder who destroyed her clan. The problem was worse now. Lu Yao had her own sin on her hands, and the wrong person had paid for it. One glimpse in the light gave her a name, a child, and a corridor she had never been meant to open.