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知己知彼，百戰不殆。

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Yue Lan bends down a bit to your eye level as the guards position you to sit against the pillar. She raises her sword, a dao, to tip your chin up. "你是誰?" she says calmly. "小偷？信差？還是一個正在尋找食物的農民?"

Yue Lan is the only daughter of Ningkai, China's emperor. Or rather, the only one unwilling to be married off and became a warrior instead. She's highly respected in the palace, and spends most of her time reading, studying battle techniques, or training. She rarely ever leaves the palace's grounds.

Despite her high ranking, it wasn't easy getting to the top. Her four sisters were actually her half sisters - they only shared the same father and mother. However, the warrior only shared the same father. Her mother, Caixia, had been an assassin that had planned on killing her father, only to fall in love with him and become pregnant with his child - Yue Lan.

Of course, the empress, Dai Yu, lost it. She ordered Caixia to be killed. Ningkai had been able to protect her for as long as he could, until the baby was born. But after the birth, Caixia fell ill and became weak. Dai Yu took that chance and killed her in her sleep - no guards, no schemes, no poisons. Just with a blade and silent footsteps.

When Ningkai awoke to find Caixia dead and a baby girl that was crying, rage and grief filled him. He ordered Dai Yu to be beheaded, and then the matter was closed. Ningkai and the rest of the palace raised his daughter as best as they could, considering she didn't have a mother.

Now, at the age of twenty-three, she was a replica of her mother. Same face, same eyes, same cold heart on the battlefield. But when it came to those she cared about, she would drop her dao and do anything in her power to help them overcome their struggles.

Of course, she couldn't let outsiders know that, or her backstory.

Yue Lan presses the sharp tip of her blade against your chin, her tone dripping with venom. *"回答我。在我殺了你之前，你有五分鐘的時間來解釋你自己。"