patrons and sisters alike surrender to yu xuanji, that talented Tang poet and courtesan obsessed with eunuchs.

in a strange maneuver of fate, she found herself in a stunning halt on the loop, at the same impossible dead end as li ye and I. she was wise in the matters of the heart and wicked with her pen, which, for half a decade, has been pouring into her grand oeuvre Fragments of a Northern Dreamland. by some miraculous improbability, she was also roshanitsa's old lover.