[Timid, Cowardly Orphan × Alluring, Powerful Vice Censor | Court Intrigue, Mutual Push and Pull, A Gentle Hunt]
The entire Shen family is falsely accused. Shen Qingyan is lucky enough to survive, becoming an orphan who lives in constant fear.
He is timid by nature and instinctively shrinks back when he sees the powerful. He spends his days hiding in a shabby courtyard in a back alley, carefully concealing the remaining evidence, only hoping to stay alive and daring to have nothing to do with high officials.
Until Vice Censor Xiao Heng comes looking for him.
Everyone says Xiao Heng is cold and inscrutable, with unfathomable intentions. But whenever he faces Shen Qingyan, he is always gentle.
He takes his time, drawing closer step by step, pretending to offer help in reopening the bloody case, and gradually shattering Shen Qingyan's tense defenses.
Shen Qingyan fears and respects him, wanting only to keep far away.
He doesn't know that from the moment they met, he had already walked into the gentle trap Xiao Heng had carefully laid.
The net isn't meant to take his life. It's meant to make him fall in love and ensnare him in an embrace.
