Xie Mingyi is the only legitimate daughter of the Zhenbei Hou Mansion. After her father died in the battle in the North, the Hou Mansion was accused of embezzling military supplies and collaborating with the enemy and treason. The man also came to break off the engagement before the imperial edict to confiscate the family was issued.
Everyone was waiting to see her fall from the clouds into the mud.
However, Xie Mingyi tore up the divorce document, took away the copper abacus left by his father, and bought a dilapidated girls' school in the West Market of the capital.
She doesn't know martial arts and has no backers. The only thing she's good at is finding out the truth from an account: why the moldy food flowed into the hands of the victims, why the military rations disappeared in the abandoned waterways, and who is using the charges of the Hou Mansion to cover up the massive corruption.
Therefore, she took in homeless women and taught them literacy, accounting, grain identification, and making a living. While building trade routes and setting up granaries during the famine years, she followed the clues left by her father and uncovered a dark network of food routes that implicated the court and the border troops.
But when she took the girls' school out of the capital, she discovered that the taciturn county magistrate Pei Zhaochuan beside her seemed to have a hidden identity.
Xie Mingyi flipped the abacus beads and said softly:
"Since the accounts are messed up, let's settle them one by one."
"What you owe me, you have to pay with your life."
