Chapter 9: Cacao

1 Chapter 1: Maomao 

2 Chapter 2: The Two Consorts 

3 Chapter 3: Jinshi 

4 Chapter 4: The Nymph’s Smile 

5 Chapter 5: Attendant 

6 Chapter 6: Poison Tester 

7 Chapter 7: Branch 

8 Chapter 8: Love Potion 

9 Chapter 9: Cacao 

10 Chapter 10: The Unsettling Matter of the Spirit (Part One) 

11 Chapter 11: The Unsettling Matter of the Spirit (Part Two) 

12 Chapter 12: The Threat 

13 Chapter 13: Nursing 

14 Chapter 15: Covert Operations 

15 Chapter 14: The Fire 

16 Chapter 16: The Garden Party (Part One) 

17 Chapter 17: The Garden Party (Part Two) 

18 Chapter 18: The Garden Party (Part Three) 

19 Chapter 19: After the Festivities 

20 Chapter 20: Fingers 

21 Chapter 21: Lihaku 

22 Chapter 22: Homecoming 

23 Chapter 23: Wheat Stalks 

24 Chapter 25: Wine 

25 Chapter 24: A Misunderstanding 

26 Chapter 26: Two ’Cides to Every Story 

27 Chapter 27: Honey (Part One) 

28 Chapter 28: Honey (Part Two 

29 Chapter 29: Honey (Part Three) 

30 Chapter 30: Ah-Duo 

31 Chapter 31: Dismissal 

32 Epilogue: The Eunuch and the Courtesan 

33 VOLUME 2: PROLOGUE 

34 Serving in the Outer Court 

35 The Pipe 

36 Teaching at the Rear Palace 

37 Raw Fish 

38 Lead 

39 Makeup 

40 A Jaunt Around Town 

41 The Plum Poison 

42 Lakan 

43 Suirei 

44 Chance or Something More 

45 The Ritual 

46 Thornapple 

47 Gaoshun 

48 Rear Palace Redux 

49 Paper 

50 How to Buy Out a Contract 

51 Blue Roses 

52 Red Nails 

53 Balsam and Woodsorrel 

54 Epilogue 2 

55 Prologue 

56 Books 

57 The Cat 

58 The Caravan 

59 Perfume Oil 

60 Corpse Fungus (Part One) 

61 Corpse Fungus (Part Two) 

62 Mirrors 

63 The Moon Spirit 

64 The Clinic 

65 Third Time’s the Charm (Part One) 

66 Third Time’s the Charm (Part Two) 

67 The Shrine of Choosing 

68 The Empress Dowager 

69 His Former Majesty 

70 Scary Stories 

71 Beating the Heat 

72 The Hunt (Part One) 

73 The Hunt (Part Two) 

74 The Hunt (Part Three) 

75 Epilogue 3 