My name is Shen Qinglan, but I have become the most annoying "treacherous official" in the Great Song Dynasty - I cannot please both sides, and I am not a human being inside or outside.
My mentor, Lu Huiqing, personally pushed me into the New Party camp, hoping that I would be a sharp tool for reform. However, when facing my ruthless boss Zhang Yan, I insisted on using "laws" to talk about rules and procedures.
My colleagues from the New Party pointed at my nose and cursed: "The head of the rat is on both ends, and the intention is evil!"
The old party didn't spare me anymore, shouting "remnants of the new party" loudly one after another.
But when Sima Guang led the old party to take power, he saw that I was disobedient to the new party and knew practical things, so he decided that I was a "lurking member of the party" and wanted to use me in an unusual way.
What a pity! I am just a small general judge who wants to abide by the principle of "doing things according to procedures". I am neither a member of the new party nor the old party, and I belong to neither!
Until the old party wanted to repeal the new law "one size fits all", I couldn't help but stop it - and now the old party also turned against me and angrily accused me of being a "repetitive villain".
Everyone in the court called me a treacherous official, but I, Shen Qinglan, really just want to be a good official who does not go against my true intentions in this troubled world of Xining!
