A Paper Without Words

Seven years ago, Shuozhou's military supplies disappeared, the defenders ran out of food, and the isolated city fell. Shen Chongyue, who was responsible for escorting the army supplies, was convicted of collaborating with the enemy, and the entire Shen family was executed. Seven years later, Shen Zhaowei, the only survivor, returned to the capital. She had no witnesses and no real accounts, only five blank accounts. She deliberately released the news, claiming that her father hid a true account of military rations before his death, and then gave five blank sheets of paper to the five people who handled the old case. There was not a word on the account, but they each saw the secret they were most afraid of being exposed. Some people burned granaries, some exchanged files, and some hunted down old troops. Shen Zhaowei followed their actions of destroying evidence and reconstructed the route of the missing military rations. Only Ning Wang Xiao Chengyan did not take the bait. He saw through the false accounts, but did not expose Shen Zhaowei. Instead, he invited her into the palace: he gave her the power to review old cases, and she helped him seize the throne. Shen Zhaowei agreed. But as the people involved in the case were arrested one after another, she discovered something even more terrifying - every piece of evidence she found happened to eliminate a political opponent for King Ning; the closer she got to the truth, the closer King Ning got to the throne. She originally thought she was borrowing Prince Ning's sword for revenge. It wasn't until the end that she discovered that maybe she had become someone else's knife from the time the first blank account paper was sent out.