Say Nothing

In the thirty-second year of Yong'an, Shen Buyan, a mute man from a poor family, alarmed the court with three policy papers, and was appointed by the late emperor as a minister on paper. Everyone knows that the mute number one scholar rose to great heights, but little did they know that three months later, a royal staff would drive him into dust - he was dismissed from his post, made a slave, and became a handyman who poured chamber pots in the Ninth Prince's Mansion. When everyone forgot about the short-lived mute, he met a young horse-raising boy named Zhao Tiezhu in the stable. The man put half of the cake stained with dust into his hand and said, "Eat, I know what it feels like to be hungry." He didn't know at that time that this half of the cake would turn into a life, a knife, and a dark web spanning the world. The Ninth Prince Xiao Jing is the most unfavored concubine. His biological mother, Concubine De, died of illness. Behind the scenes was the empress' affair and poisoning with her uncle Xiao Xuan. Shen Buyan used charcoal pen to write secret reports on rags, stared at the back door of the three mansions with a beggar's eyes, and saw through each visitor's trump card with an ink-sharp gesture - the witchcraft case was overturned, the prince was deposed, and the princes were fighting. The court was like a chess game, and Shen Buyan stood behind the chessboard, pushing the ninth prince forward with pieces of paper. But the world can calculate faster than him. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.