Shen Jinglan lived in poverty for ten years and was the top scholar in high school. On the day when he was riding a horse through the streets, his childhood sweetheart Liu Ruyan shouted to him in the crowd: "Waiting for you to come back!"
Three days later, Jinyiwei rushed into the Zhuangyuan Mansion and searched for secret letters of collaboration with the enemy from his study. The evidence is overwhelming and the death penalty is inevitable.
In the prison, Liu Ruyan came to see him for the last time. She knelt down and smiled at him through the iron fence: "Mr. Shen, you are too poor. The prince promised me that as long as I get rid of you, I will be his concubine."
She tore off a corner of the secret letter written in ink mixed by his own hand in front of him. The piece of paper fell in front of him like a snowflake.
"Everything you taught me," Shen Jinglan clutched the piece of paper tightly in the darkness, "I will give it back to you."
Everyone thought he was dead.
Three years later, a mysterious counselor named "Su Mo" appeared in the capital. He brought down half of the princelings on behalf of Chen Guogong, he caused the Liu family's business to plummet, and he tore off his human skin mask in public at the prince's night banquet.
