[Historical Romance + Bickering Couple + Secret Devotion + Little Ray of Sunshine + Mutual Devotion, Happy Ending]
[Reading guide: Cold, stubborn Assistant Minister of Justice × Wild, outgoing playboy]
My name is Lin Yaoyao, and I’m the most notorious young playboy in the capital. I’ve set my heart on pursuing Gu Yanqing, an Assistant Minister of Justice at the Dali Temple.
On the first day, I gave him gold and silver as a gift. He gave me a lecture in court on the laws against bribery.
On the second day, I secretly dug up a government canal and planted lotuses to win his favor. He sentenced me to wear a pair of silver handcuffs.
I pulled strings to become his personal clerk, only to be made to copy the Great Liang Code ten times.
I thought he was a block of ice, bound by the law and impossible to warm, until I took a poisoned arrow for him during an assassination attempt. As I lay dying, I saw his perpetually icy expression shatter completely.
Later, when the Lin family was wrongfully accused and everyone in the capital avoided me like the plague, he alone stood in front of me, facing the soldiers and saying coldly, “If you want to touch her, you’ll have to step over my dead body first.”
His heart was harder to sway than the principles he’d upheld all his life. But once he fell in love, there was no turning back.
She was the exception to his rules. He was the rules she lived by.
When the most unruly young lady collides with the most impartial Assistant Minister of Justice, their chaotic romance of a woman pursuing a man conceals a shocking case that threatens the whole court, along with two hearts that find warmth in each other.
Welcome to a hilarious love story about a stone-pillar writer and a man pursued with the dedication of someone studying for the civil service exams.
