The Splendid Ledger, Volume One: Walking Through Snow

On the day she turned eighteen, her father's head was hung on the city wall.

A heavy snowfall buried her home, along with the lives of 137 people.

Kneeling in the snow, she swore: One day, I'll use money to buy my enemies' lives.

No one believed an orphan girl could do it.

Then, three years later, Zhao Yannian, the Minister of Revenue, knelt before her, weeping and pleading, "Please spare me, my lady!"