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Chapter 70-Imperial Edict Bearer

Chapter 69-Two Sides of the Same Blade

Chapter 68

I'm sharing it as a Google Doc link for now, just in case you aren't up to date with the recent chapters.

Advance Chapters Available Starting Chapter 68

Meme Collective

Sorry for the long absence, I return with a number of memes (mostly translated from Chinese) that my roommate provided the ideas for, and will have some extra scenes up in the next few days.

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OG Wenyuan: I'm not stupid and I'm not a bad person. I just made a mistake that all men m...

Deleted Scene-Hu Qing and Minister Liang

Takes place after Hu Qing's argument with Minister Liang when he was offered legitimization. I removed this scene because it impeded the story flow, but I wanted to go into the family dynamics between Minister Liang and Hu Qing. As Hu Qing's uncle (actually his older brother), Minister Liang has ...

Two versions of concept art I made for Wenyuan

More terrible drawings, these two are from awhile ago and represent the relationship between the Grand Duke and the OG Wenyuan. This was back when I was considering making a cover myself before giving up and using a stock photo, I promise the next post will have some actual content other than rou...

Rough drawing of Xianchun

Extremely rough sketch of Kayla/Wenyuan

A historically inaccurate hairstyle/outfit, but here's the basic gist of it. If I have more time in the future, I might make a better drawing.

Extra Scene: Imperial Investigator Bureau

[Character Index
Li Que: A senior Imperial Investigator, worked with Kayla before.
Chen Jian: A young Imperial Investigator who worked with Kayla before, the older brother of Chen Caichun, Kayla's subordinate.
An Haoyang: A young Imperial Investigator who's connected with Qu Boyong.

Upcoming Arcs

Without spoiling too much, I've been very busy working on extensive outlines and drafts of the upcoming arcs. These are arcs I'm very excited for, and I'm finally going to be getting around to plotlines I've been hinting at since the earliest chapters.

In the upcoming arc immediately after ...

Imperial Court Factions

This is a closer look at the factions in the Imperial Court. Bright yellow is the Emperor's own faction, or at least supposedly part of the Emperor's faction. Light yellow is the neutral faction, which includes the Minister of Public Works,  and now also Kayla as the head of the Court of Jud...

Names of the Imperial Princes

For the Emperor, Zhou Yin, as well as the three surviving Imperial Princes, their names are based on Emperors from the Song Dynasty. Zhou Yin, the current Emperor, has the character "胤/Yin" as his given name. This character means "to succeed your forefathers", or "to inherit/to carry on the blo...

Imperial Investigation Bureau

The Imperial Investigation Bureau is based on the Censorate/御史台, a high-level supervisory agency in Ancient China that was hated and feared by civil and military officials alike, and it was especially powerful and effective during the Mongol-ruled Yuan Dynasty, as well as in the following H...