In the third year of Yongchang's reign, the Ministry of Household Affairs suddenly discovered a batch of fake "Yongchang Tongbao" copper coins that were almost identical to the real ones. The market price collapsed and public resentment boiled.
Pei Shaoxuan, the head of the sixth rank of the Household Department, was born with an ear for distinguishing money. He could tell the authenticity of a copper coin after passing it. He was ordered by the emperor to thoroughly investigate the case, but he was caught up in the game of forces between various parties and became an outcast in the court.
Yan Mingwei, the eldest daughter of the bank, is gentle and virtuous on the surface, but secretly she is the young leader of the "Bronze Coin Society", a non-governmental anti-corruption organization. She approached Pei Shaoxuan as his "fiancée" just to get the confidential account books of the Ministry of Accounts and reveal the shocking conspiracy behind the counterfeit currency case.
He was good at calculating, but he couldn't figure out her sincerity; she was careful at every step, but she didn't figure out her own feelings.
When the bone-corrosive poison quenched in the fake copper coins gradually spreads, and when the blood debts in the account books of the household department surface, the two people have to make a choice between machinations and sincerity——
