[Historical romance + fictional setting] Wen Yuqiu x Song Wenqing
Her father was falsely accused of embezzling three hundred thousand taels and died miserably in prison.
She stopped the Embroidered Uniform Guard’s commander in the street. He used his scabbard to lift her collar. “If you want me to investigate the case, first let me see what else you're hiding on your person.”
Twelve years ago, she saved a boy from the jaws of wild dogs. Twelve years later, that boy held a knife to her throat and asked where the money was hidden.
Yet beneath the three inches of cord wrapped around his knife hilt was the character “Qiu,” which she had written when she was seven. He had kept it hidden for twelve years.
Later, when she opened the ledger in the money house's cellar, she found a secret mark left by her father on every page: “If Qiu'er comes looking, Lord Song, please keep her safe.”
