The Phoenix Hairpin

A foolish mother picked a phoenix gold hairpin off a corpse and claimed to be the missing Princess Yongning. Her daughter knew it was madness - but she also knew the hairpin was the key to a fifteen-year-old murder. When the real princess appeared with the birthmark, the mole, the scar, and every palace secret, the daughter did the one thing no one expected: she broke the hairpin. Inside was a blood letter written by the dead princess herself: 'The Crown Prince brother harmed me.' What followed was a royal scandal that toppled a crown prince, avenged a murdered princess, and revealed that the foolish mother was actually the loyal maid who had carried the true princess's daughter to safety - and that the daughter had been setting this trap her entire life.