Episode 5: Execution Day: Forty-Two More

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Every imperial decree must exist in three identical copies—or the nearest clerk dies for treason. Archive clerk Bai Lihua finds a fourth copy hidden in a latrine wall, dated three weeks ahead, sealed by a regency dead sixty years, and naming her as the executioner of an imperial order. Refuse, and her brother is erased.

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