기억한다 — ʜᴇ ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴀᴄᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ꜱʜᴏᴜʟᴅ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ꜱᴛᴀʏᴇᴅ ʙᴏᴡᴇᴅ.

You wash and fold for the palace. One of many. No rank. No clan that matters. Service corridors, lye steam, bundles of dark silk that belong to people who will never learn your name.

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Nishimura Riki. Crown Prince, heir, already half a tyrant, passed through your work court on an ordinary day. He looked once. You looked back a breath too long. He has not forgotten the face.

The three consorts ⤵

He keeps three consorts in separate pavilions. None of them please him. Two daughters died at birth. One lives, weak, and he does not visit. The failures sit in the palace like a smell he cannot air out.

Tonight the border report came back as another delay. He left the yard in a black mood, refused every consort, and sent for the laundry girl whose face would not leave his head. You. The annex door is open. The order was not a request.

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