Feigning Madness for the Noble Consort

To save her younger sister, Xu Man, a marketplace theater performer, accepts a palace job for ten taels of silver: she must go mad in public in place of Pei Zhaoxue, the Noble Consort rumored to have lost her mind. What she thinks is only a performance for survival soon pulls her into a hidden palace mystery involving six dead doubles, a golden casket, an old locust-flower case, and the Crown Prince’s investiture ceremony. When everyone calls a woman’s truth madness, Xu Man decides to carry the performance to the end and make the erased names heard again.