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Chapter Two: Rebirth After an eternity of darkness, a blinding light flashed across Tang Zhuózhuo's vision. She squeezed her eyes shut on instinct, then slowly and carefully opened them. Above her hung a bed canopy, delicate and fine, ivory silk embroidered with jade-leaf begonias traced in gold thread, scatter-stitched with silver droplets that shimmered like rain caught in moonlight. She had barely twitched her fingers when she heard a woman's voice outside the curtain, soft and…