I am the youngest female scribe of Dali Temple. I was expelled from the official office just because I stood up for a woman who was brutally tortured to death by her husband's family. So I put up a sign in the most chaotic market in Chang'an: "Any woman who is wronged can surrender."
The first order I took was to retrieve a child for a concubine; the second order was to dissolve a ghost marriage for a merchant's daughter; and the third order was to help a "mad woman" prove that she was not the murderer of her husband. Every time I solve a case, I get an exhibit related to the "Fengyi Palace Fire" twenty years ago.
Until an old woman in a curtain hat placed a letter of divorce in front of me: "divorce my husband for me. My husband, the late Emperor Xiao Che."
