A period romance novel about how little people keep the little light in their hearts in the dark age.
In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, in the twelfth lunar month of winter, it snowed heavily in the capital.
Silence is the lowest-ranking captain of Jinyiwei, a poor boy who crawled out from among the dead. He had been kneeling in prison for five years. His knees were broken and his heart was almost broken. Until that snowy night, he met a person - scholar Chen Jishi, a member of the Donglin Party who was thrown into prison for delivering messages for others.
Silence wants to save him.
He can't save it. He is just a pawn from the seventh grade, a poor man who can't even protect himself.
Then he met another man.
Shen Zhaoning, the daughter of Shen Lian, the Jinyiwei Qianshi. She followed her father in handling cases since she was a child, and learned how to look at people, speak appropriately, and walk on the edge of a knife. It was rumored outside that she was ruthless and cold-blooded, but what she saw in silence was a woman who said in the moonlight, "Let her have a good meal before she dies."
"Come see me again tomorrow night."
"Where to go?"
"Go save people."
One sentence tied the fate of two people together.
What they want to save is Chen Jishi's wife Aheng - a pregnant and helpless woman. But what they have to face is the entire Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and those dignitaries in the court who don't want the word "peace" to be spread.
The snow is getting heavier and heavier, and the night is getting deeper and deeper
