Translator's note: curious about why I'm working on the earlier chapters? You can find an explanation in the translator's note on the ninth chapter . - “Come to speak of it, this is strange as well,” A Yin said, tired of eating melon seeds, idly swinging the handkerchief, “previously, I had a gracious customer, who had obtained a concubine [1] whose beauty rivalled Xi Shi’s, [2] and from what I’ve heard, he couldn’t bear to part with her, passing night after night with music and singing, and it’s been quite a few days since he came here to me. But what I didn’t expect was that, after only a few months, this concubine suddenly caught tuberculosis and died.” A Yin clapped her hands together, the sound sharp and clear, and then parted them like a bird’s wings. “That lord was heartbroken and lost his mind, and buried her grandly. But she’d only been buried eight days when a highly treasured object went missing, and thinking over it, he thought perhaps he had, without meaning