Rain of Flowering Letters Behind the Deep Courtyard

Her husband died after being falsely accused. She takes her three daughters to the capital, ostensibly to find them husbands, but secretly to investigate the bloody case. At the Flower-Sending Banquet, the new top scorer admires her eldest daughter, the Duke's heir pauses in the plum grove for her second daughter, and a young general finds a connection with the youngest over archery. Then, on a rainy night, the Hanlin Academy scholar who has waited for years takes her hand. “Marry me, and I'll clear your name.” Begonias sway in the rain at the mansion. The sweetness is the warmth of sincere affection found at the brink of despair; the heartbreak is that every tender feeling is stained by the blood of an old case. They fall in love on the edge of a blade, and flowers bloom on thin ice.