The Pagoda Sentence

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Mei Liang, an imperial physician's apprentice, is falsely convicted of poisoning a prince and sentenced to eighty-one years inside the Hundred-Tier Pagoda, a cultivation prison where every ascended tier removes three years and every failure adds three. Weak, branded, and unable to fight at range, Mei survives by reading bodies like medical texts—pulse, breath, capillaries, tremors—and predicting the next three techniques of anyone close enough to kill her. Her only path to pardon is upward, but the real murderer, Han Yue, is climbing behind her with a smile. If he reaches the top first, the imperial record will erase the crime forever. Across five brutal tiers, Mei turns prisoners into tools, heals herself with forbidden lichen tinctures, and discovers Han is not seeking freedom but a memory-erasing Sealing Stone hidden at Tier One Hundred. When she finally forces his confession before the pagoda's recording mirror, the victory becomes another trap: Han wanted the whole tower to hear her voice.

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