Gu Shining's life creed is: try not to quarrel when you can do things, and try not to accept fate when you can get the benefits.
Being annulled? It just so happened that she didn't want to get married in the first place.
Enter the palace and become a female official? That's okay, anyway, the dim sum at Imperial Study House is better than Taifu's House.
Digging through old cases to find out the truth behind his mother's murder? It was necessary. This was the explanation she owed for eighteen years.
His Highness Prince Yan always takes a second look at her when she passes by? This... She hasn't figured out what to do yet.
"Gu Shining," the man stood in the moonlight, holding a red rope that took half a month to braid, and said in a very soft voice, "I owe you what I owe you, and I will pay it back in my lifetime."
She took the red string and tied it around her wrist, feeling that she didn't lose the money.
——After all, the sweet-scented osmanthus cake is enough.