The Prodigy Beyond Her Peers

Yun Zhaoyue woke up in a body marked for early death, and the first thing she saw was a mountain sea of clouds far below the sect walls. She had been given the role of a useless background girl, so she used that role to watch everyone. Every debt, every bow, and every feast became a clue. A broken sleeve hid an empty lantern. A rusted punishment tablet sat in her hands like a joke no one else understood. Zhaoyue was patient, cold, and careful, but she still flinched when her new body failed her in private. She learned fast because she had to. The girl everyone planned to erase started making the dead list useless, one quiet move at a time. The one person who kept standing beside her was the ...