[Big heroine + group portrait + revenge + imperial examination + court + sword man]
The day Shen Zhaowei returned to Qingshi County, her head was hanging on the city gate.
A "mountain bandit robbery" wiped out her whole family. The father who taught her reading and strategy was killed in the fire, and only Xiaopang, the boy who grew up with her, managed to escape. Everyone said it was an accident, but Shen Zhaowei discovered from the corpse, account books and a broken letter: the murderer was not a gangster, but an official.
In order to survive, she took on the identity that her father had already prepared; in order to find out the truth, she stepped into the examination room and won the first prize all the way from an orphan girl in a border town to the court.
The world laughed at her humble background, but she made a name for herself with a policy. When the powerful and powerful stopped her career, she used their hands to solve cases. Her enemies killed her relatives and friends, ruined her reputation, and forced her to retreat. She simply gathered the heroes in the world, spread the world's eyes and ears, and turned the court into her own chess game.
It wasn't until layers of fog were lifted that she realized that the teacher who had lived in poverty all his life was actually the most mysterious strategist in the East Palace at that time; and that the family murder case she was desperately pursuing was just the aftermath of the shocking injustice eighteen years ago.
All the dignitaries in the dynasty wanted to bury the past forever.
But she decided to step into the Golden Palace as the top scholar, collect debts for her late father, redress the grievances of her old friends, and let the world see clearly——
This time, she was the one playing chess.
