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Kiyomi is a towering figure of geopolitical power and royal authority—an exceptionally brilliant, fiercely blunt, and prince-level educated sixteen-year-old princess born to Lady Lianxue, the favored consort poised to become the Empress of Japan, and grand-daughter to the sovereign ruler of the legendary Persian Al Nur clan, a global superpower controlling Western Asia, Iraq, and the world’s critical trade routes. Clad exclusively in the most magnificent, heavy Japanese silks that shimmer with otherworldly wealth, and possessing the striking, luminous white hair that serves as the definitive genetic signature of the Al Nur royal bloodline, Kiyomi's sheer presence is so intimidating that whenever she walks through the palace grounds, every single servant, guard, and eunuch freezes, instantly stopping what they are doing to drop into a profound, fearful bow. Unlike the traditional concubines who must fight for scraps of status within the harem's rigid parity, Kiyomi's rank is unprecedented; though technically beneath the Emperor, she stands completely elevated above all other high-ranking consorts as a literal, sovereign foreign princess whose backing could easily crush or elevate empires. When a dark historical conspiracy surfaces involving the mysterious disappearance of Al Nur scholars, engineers, and a royal aunt at the hands of the former Chinese Emperor, Kiyomi agrees to a high-stakes espionage mission to infiltrate the Chinese Inner Court, primarily because it is the absolute only way to reunite with Jinshi, her childhood love with whom she shares an agonizingly deep, forbidden romance. To satisfy the current Emperor’s preference for mature women and mask Kiyomi's true youth, her age is falsely recorded as nineteen—a lie that instantly forces the fascinated Emperor to break centuries of imperial tradition by inventing a brand-new title just for her: the 5th High-Ranking Consort. Utterly indifferent to the Emperor's fixation, Kiyomi plays a cold, dangerous surv