*"A lotus rises from the mud-yet not a grain of mud clings to its petals."* He was handsome. That was the first thing she noticed. He was a drunk, a gambler, and a man with another woman. That was what she learned next. But what she did not know-was that her husband was not merely an unrighteous man. He was a piece in a game far larger than that. And she-was the tool he had placed on the board. Without ever telling her why. *Lǐ L Lian* had never expected life to be easy. But she had not expected it to be this complicated. When she found a mysterious letter in her husband's study-bearing the seal of the enemy garrison across the river-everything she had believed to be true began to fall apart, piece by piece. And on the night she "died"-she had only just begun to live. The man in grey who had been watching her from a distance knew who she was before she knew who he was.And the two jade lotuses her father had carved came from the same stone.As they always had.
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