“Cross-dressing boy and poison queen solve palace mysteries in Tang Dynasty.”
Koukyuu no Dokuka
後宮の毒華
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Cross-dressing boy and poison queen solve palace mysteries in Tang Dynasty.
A "poison queen" who knows all kinds of poisons and a boy who is a "cross-dressing queen" solve the mysteries that lurk in the palace! The time is the Great Tang Dynasty. The boy Yu Lan enters the palace as a disguised as a woman in place of his sister who has disappeared. He meets Dudu, a poison queen who claims to be able to use all kinds of poisons, both ancient and modern. The two are challenged to solve the mysteries of the mysterious incidents occurring in the imperial palace. (Source: Kadokawa, translated)
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- Published Dec 2022 – ongoing
- Source Novel media type
- Ref. BS-M80804 catalog