The day Lu Yourong's engagement was annulled by the Hou Mansion, everyone in the capital was waiting to see her cry. She didn't cry, she just took out a stack of old IOUs and asked the Marquis to cancel the engagement and return all the money she owed. In the rain came a sickly scholar Zheng Jingren, wearing a green shirt and an old umbrella. He coughed as if he would not survive more than three months, but in a few words he revealed the false accounts of the Hou Mansion. Lu Yourong originally thought that this man was short-lived, poor, and easy to handle, and that he was suitable to be a fake husband who would divorce him after three months. Later, I found out that he was the secret envoy of Yushitai who was ordered to secretly investigate and clear up the false accounts. He was not gentle, but he was the least gentle. She settled the accounts, and he set up a trap; she also made a mistake in her calculations, and the reputation of the accounting bureau was tarnished by Prime Minister Gu's approval note. After the trough, the couple worked side by side to investigate the small accounts in the market to the major cases in the court, put the old cases in Nanzhou on top of the golden palace, and also turned a fake marriage into a real account in life.
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These two people are both smart people, but their smartness is not used to crush each other, but to test each other. In the end of the test, no one won, but no one lost. They just slowly discovered that the other was more like themselves than they thought - they both hid deeply, knew how to settle accounts, and didn't trust people easily, but they didn't step on each other when the other showed flaws.
"The most dangerous person is not a vicious person, but a person who drinks bitter medicine with a smile." He is afraid of suffering, but he does not frown. He measured every cough carefully. But she is such a calculating person. When she put the scissors to the back of her neck, the first thing she said was "the knife is wrong."
He was not afraid of the knife, but of her hurting herself.
These two people are both smart people, but their smartness is not used to crush each other, but to test each other. In the end of the test, no one won, but no one lost. They just slowly discovered that the other was more like themselves than they thought - they both hid deeply, knew how to settle accounts, and didn't trust people easily, but they didn't step on each other when the other showed flaws. "The most dangerous person is not a vicious person, but a person who drinks bitter medicine with a smile." He is afraid of suffering, but he does not frown. He measured every cough carefully. But she is such a calculating person. When she put the scissors to the back of her neck, the first thing she said was "the knife is wrong." He was not afraid of the knife, but of her hurting herself.
The writing is delicate and warm, I like it
Very interesting, recommended reading