[A beautiful, clever heroine with foxlike eyes vs. a stern, imposing hero in official robes]
[Two formidable minds in love x an aloof, untouchable beauty x courtroom rivals x charged moments in the imperial prison]
Thrown into a pig cage from the start? She tears up the divorce papers instead!
Su Yanxin, a modern legal hotshot, wakes up in ancient times as a “discarded wife” about to be drowned. A freezing pig cage closes around her as rain pours down. Is her death already certain?
No! Her tongue is the sharpest blade of all!
In court, she dazzles with her eloquence, cites the law, exploits loopholes, and tears apart forged evidence. Then, before everyone, she rips the divorce papers to shreds. “Today, I, Su Yanxin, am divorcing you!” From then on, the countryside rings with tales of the “Sly-Tongued Lady.”
With a charcoal pencil spinning in her left hand and foxlike eyes that see straight through people, she is determined to become the most unconventional female litigator of all! She stands up for ordinary people, upends corrupt courts with her modern legal thinking, and fights with cunning while staying true at heart. She humiliates tyrants, brings corrupt clerks down, and fights her way from the county seat to the provincial capital!
But she has no idea that a pair of eyes, cold as a frozen abyss, have already fixed on her: Pei Ji, the “Living Yama” of the Dali Temple. Powerful and impartial, he despises tricks like hers. Their courtroom debates spark with tension, and when danger in the imperial prison puts their lives on the line, he warns her coldly, only to reach out and help when she is in dire straits…
When a major imperial examination fraud case rocks the court and a candidate who wrote a blood petition is on the brink of death, Su Yanxin boldly takes on this dangerous burden.
She debates before the emperor and takes on a hall full of scholars! With her silver tongue, she exposes the powerful and their dark dealings, challenging the emperor: “If you wrongfully execute scholars today, will you not chill the hearts of the people throughout the realm?”
A woman alone, stirring the winds of change at court with nothing but her words
