On the night her family was raided, Shen Zhiwei fell from the legitimate daughter of a Vice Minister to the daughter of a condemned official. If she wasn’t married off to a low-ranking man within three days, she would be sent to the entertainment bureau. Wearing prison clothes, she knocked on the door of Pei Yanshu, a poor scholar. “Marry me. I’ll manage the household, earn your travel expenses, and help you rise to success.” Everyone laughed. A fallen noblewoman and a poor scholar were just two heaps of mud clinging to each other. But she refused to accept her fate.
She helped the Pei family reclaim their land deeds and medicine money, brought their failing bookshop back to life, and supported him from the provincial exams all the way to the imperial court. While poring over old records, she also discovered that the mastermind behind the destruction of the Shen family was hiding among the upright ministers her husband was about to join. This time, she would help him become Grand Secretary and clear her family’s name, making their enemies pay for their blood debt.
