When Zhong Xue met Xie Linyue for the first time, she was seven years old and he was eleven.
She stood up for the bullied boy.
Later, she forgot.
But he remembered it for eight full years.
Eight years later.
She is the most beautiful woman in the Wei Kingdom who is famous in Chang'an.
He is the proton of Chu who is despised by everyone.
A palace banquet and a drug case brought two people who should have had nothing in common to meet again.
"I believe in the evidence," she said.
He said: "I never trust people."
Later.
She became the only person he wanted to trust.
And he became the person she was willing to go through thick and thin with.
