Jiang Zhaoxue was originally a noblewoman from a prominent family in the south of the Yangtze River, but because of her father's investigation into a money-relief embezzlement case, she offended the powerful and was falsely accused of collaborating with the enemy.
She was also demoted to a criminal slave and became the lowest embroidery slave in the Shangyi Bureau.
Jiang Zhaoxue knew that her father was not a traitor, and the Jiang family was not a rebel. Behind that old case, there were embezzled relief funds, tampered military reports and a group of murderers who were sitting high in the temple.
She bowed her head in humiliation, used the embroidery needle as her eye and the old case as her blade, and climbed up from the dust step by step.
She wanted to reverse the Jiang family's case, and she also wanted to make the people who crushed her pay for it with blood.
The first person to see through her edge was Pei Yanchi, the youngest powerful official in the dynasty.
When we first met, she knelt in the snow to confess for others. Everyone thought she was scared, but Pei Yanchi saw that there was an unsheathed knife hidden under her lowered eyebrows.
At first, he tests her, uses her, treats her like a pawn.
Later, he watched with his own eyes as she went from being a slave to being a slave, step by step, to a position where she could stir up trouble in the court.
She asked for no mercy, no protection, and even dared to include him in the game.
Pei Yanchi finally understood that Jiang Zhaoxue was not a dodder flower, but an inexhaustible fire on a snowy night.
She avenges an old case, and he clears the way for the court.
This relationship started with temptation, got stuck in admiration, got trapped in position, and finally came together.
Above the Golden Palace, Jiang Zhaoxue opened the old case files with his own hands and spoke calmly:
"My daughter Jiang Zhaoxue, I do not ask for divine grace today, I only ask for justice."
