I Accidentally Tamed a Court Beast

Lin Shuyan learned to breathe without being seen. She wore a trader’s clothes, used a man’s name in public, and kept her family ledgers folded inside her sleeves like a second skin. When the rank hall stamped her as a weak hunter, she should have stayed small. Instead, a hidden line inside her status window answered to attention, rumor, and public trust, and that made every glance at her valuable. She could feel the cost right away. A good reputation fed her power. A bad one could starve it. She needed money for her family, proof that she could stand on her own, and enough fame to survive the people already circling her. The problem was simple. The more she rose, the harder it became to keep...