Through an unlikely series of events, bandit chief and governor’s heir Wei Zisong — who was raised as a boy for Reasons — finds herself engaged to Princess Chu Feichen, the emperor’s eldest daughter. Through an even more unlikely series of events, they fall in love.

赵声阁像临危不崩的高山， 那点微不可察的倦意是溪谷飘零的落叶， 无足轻重，无人窥察， 只有每日飞向这座山的鸟知道。 高山仰止，陈挽当那只飞鸟，经年盘旋不止。

In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of “debility”—bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors—to disrupt the category of disability. She shows how debility, disability, and capacity together constitute an assemblage that states use to control populations. Puar's analysis culminates in an interrogation of Israel's policies toward Palestine, in which she outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury. Supplementing its right to kill with what Puar calls the right to maim, the Israeli state relies on liberal frameworks of disability to obscure and enable the mass debilitation of Palestinian bodies. Tracing disability's interaction with debility and capacity, Puar offers a brilliant rethinking of Foucauldian biopolitics while showing how disability functions at the intersection of imperialism and racialized capital.