Episode 5: Two True Names

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Mortal widow Liang Hua nurses immortal infants under three rules: never speak first, never name the child, never let the child name you. Her ward, the son of a banished sky-god, breaks them all at four months by speaking her hidden true name. Now she must falsify records and keep a calamity-born baby calm—while he learns far more than she can hide.

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