My Wife Is Stronger Than My Brush

Li Heng loses his place the moment his brush is used for the wrong lie. The ink on that page helps bring down the last survivors of his destroyed school, and he carries the blame like a burn he cannot hide. Exile sends him to a tea town under the red azalea hills, where he lives by copying texts, mending ledgers, and keeping one borrowed jade pendant locked in his desk drawer. He wants silence. Instead, he gets a recovering friend, a woman who can cut through his excuses, and a secret he shares with three other people. They all know the hidden heir's name. No one has said it aloud. When the truth finally comes out, Heng must decide whether he is still the man who ran or the man who stays and...