When Shen Yanzhi, an official matchmaker of the Great Yong court, dies a mysterious death, his son Shen Qingfeng vanishes without a trace. To avenge her father and brother and protect the Shen family’s century-old honor, “Ice Matchmakers, Generations of Virtue,” Shen Qingwu resolutely shaves her eyebrows, binds her chest, disguises herself as a man, and takes up her brother’s name and his seventh-rank official post as court matchmaker.
Under the court’s turbulent currents, marriage cases are full of bizarre twists. Blessed with a photographic memory and mastery of the Household and Marriage Code, she wields the law as her blade: exposing a fake marriage scam, outwitting a treacherous consort, bravely resisting forced marriage by the powerful, and digging into the specters of ghost marriages… Behind every strange case lies a vast conspiracy woven by Qin Song, Minister of Rites.
Her identity is as precarious as walking on thin ice, with the crime of deceiving the emperor hanging over her head. Xiao Heng, the cold-faced, secretly tender regent, goes from curious scrutiny to devoted protection, joining her to unravel the schemes. When her identity is finally revealed, can she outwit her way through a life-and-death struggle, clear her name through love, become Great Yong’s first top female matchmaker, and use the Marriage Registry in her hands to write a new chapter in a flourishing age where law and human feeling intertwine?
