Ten years ago, in order to consolidate the power of the civil servant court, Chief Assistant Liu Cunli personally organized a shocking and unjust case of collaborating with the enemy and treason.
The Xiao family, the Hou of Zhenbei, who had guarded the northern border for generations and was loyal to them, was massacred overnight, and blood flowed through the long streets of the imperial capital.
Xiao Ning, the legitimate daughter of the Xiao family who was only seven years old, was lucky enough to survive. After ten years of hard work, she returned to the capital from the endless purgatory. She tied up her hair and covered up her red makeup, disguised herself as a man and took the alias Wen Ning.
He entered the official position as a low-ranking Jinshi, and was relegated to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, serving as an eighth-grade low-level official who no one noticed.
She gathered all her fierceness and pretended to be a cowardly, mediocre and unambitious low-level civil servant. She lurked in the undercurrent of the court, planning step by step, just to tear apart the ironclad case of the year and comfort the souls of the whole family who died in vain...
