The Ledger Taken Back from Academy

Wen Ruoyan stepped back into the academy carrying sale records, a small charm, and the kind of calm that came from reading other people’s money trouble for a living. Her work in the auction house had trained her to spot who was desperate, who was proud, and who would sell a family heirloom only after everything else had failed. That made her useful. It also made her hard to fool. But the place she returned to was full of old faces, old rules, and one dead husband who had clearly been waiting in the wrong room for too long. Ruoyan can sense when something is being done for the last time, and the feeling follows her everywhere. The one person who understands her best is the ghost who was suppo...