The Jade Carver’s Second Life

Li Yao wakes up in a younger body with jade dust on her hands and her murder still fresh in memory. She was killed once after years of marriage and children, and now she remembers the whole trap before it can close again. Her old skill as a jade carver makes her dangerous, because the manuals she carves can read differently to different people. When a letter of recommendation arrives from someone who should not know her well enough to write it, she realizes her second life is tied to a stranger who may know the worst truth about her past. She stays calm in public, but inside she is counting every debt, every bruise, and every name that once signed her death.