Where dynasties collapsed, women turned their pens into blades; among the ashes of history books, their green robes were stained with blood and turned into poems.
During the Yongning period, the nine-level Zhongzheng system of the Dajing Dynasty had long been rusty. The Yu family, a noble family in the Qing Dynasty, offended the powerful people because of a piece of paper called "Tuntian Policy", and the whole family withered. The legitimate daughter Yu Hanyuan cut off her black hair, put on her deceased brother's official robe, and entered the turbulent court under the name "Yu Yanqing".
She opened up case files, investigated water transportation, and uncovered military grain corruption, but her daughter's identity was exposed by her mortal enemy. On the day when the snow fell on the execution ground, her brother entrusted her with his life and took her into the Xie Mansion as his concubine. In the wedding room with swaying red candles, she swallowed the silver hairpin in her hair and buried the official seal of the imperial censor under the crabapple tree——
"History is written by men, but justice lies in my heart."
From the poisonous salt cocoon in the south of the Yangtze River to the human bone salt lake in Saibei, from the cryptic text in the forest of steles in Jingu Garden to the phosphorus fire in the ruins of Lantai, Yu Hanyuan formed a shocking alliance with Cui Lingyi, a talented girl from Qinghe, Murong Ling, a traitorous witch, and Lin Zhao, a medical officer from a poor family. They used blood as ink and salt as blades to write the "Ember River Record" in the ashes of "The Female Commandments".
However, when his best friend Su Heng pushed her into the fire pit to save her loved ones, and when the phosphorus fire bursting from the salt urn reflected the deepest shadow of imperial power, Yu Hanyuan finally understood that the carrion in this world had already invaded the bone marrow, and the price for a woman's awakening was to burn her own green robe with her own hands.
