On the day her father was beheaded, she was thirteen years old and knelt on the execution ground gnawing mud. At the age of eighteen, he entered the county government under a pseudonym and worked as a copy clerk. He relied on his photographic memory to memorize the entire county's account books and found irrefutable evidence of corruption. In the same year he entered Beijing, he wrote a memorial and defeated a third-rank official. She has no family background or support, but she understands human nature well, recognizes loyalties and traitors, and discerns desires. She can turn corrupt officials, poor men, abandoned sons, mad dogs, abandoned women, medicine women, singers, and merchants into knives in her hands. When the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty knelt down to worship the Emperor on the Dragon Throne, no one knew that the person who decided who would sit on the Dragon Throne was an orphan girl who did not dare to use her real name.
