The entire Xie family was sentenced to death, and the powerful ministers of the Xie clan were brought down overnight.
Xie Yanzhou, once the pride of the capital, had his arm and leg crippled and was tossed into a ruined courtyard north of the city to await death. Even his fiancée publicly broke off their engagement.
Everyone in the capital said that anyone who got involved with him would come to ruin.
But Shen Zhiyu, daughter of the General of the North's household, refused to believe it. She brought people carrying betrothal gifts and blocked his door.
"Xie Yanzhou, they don't want you, but I do! Will you marry me?"
Faced with her bold gamble, he casually agreed, assuming she was just young and naive.
Until she took a blade for him, treated his wounds, and stood against the villains across the court on his behalf.
Only then did his eyes redden. The silly girl, it turned out, was the white moonlight he had lost on a snowy night.
