Plum Blossom Night Watch Hall

Mu Yan wakes with a stolen painkiller pack in her bag and blood on her sleeve, then steps into a safehouse where every smile feels staged. She used to run the emperor’s eyes and ears, so she knows how secrets move through rich families, office towers, and guarded homes. That knowledge keeps her alive after the dead start hunting through Linzhou, but it also makes her the kind of witness people want to bury. Her power is strange and hated. If she watches someone closely for an hour, she can use that person’s physical skill only while they sleep. The catch is cruel. Their sleeping body dreams of losing it. Mu Yan must use that gift to survive, while reading liars in a place where one wrong nam...