Unaware of the crisis he was going to face, Rong Shuihe was attentively fiddling with a jade hairpin half done in his room.

It was made out of flawless smooth suet white jade in the shape of a round stick, 12 centimeters in length, with the tip being blunted to prevent the possible injury. However, on the other end of the hairpin was sculpted neither the common flowers and birds, nor the auspicious clouds, nor the lively insects.

Instead...

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