<blockquote>No one will sleep until the Princess learns the Stranger’s name.
Liù the slave girl, who has loved the Stranger since before his exile, when he was a Prince, when he smiled at her—Liù alone knows who he really is. So it is Liù who is dragged to the Princess’s garden by night, bound, ankles twisting as she stumbles through the peonies.</blockquote>
➤ Not sure I quite follow the ending but it works anyway