Bei Tangqing, chief escort of Hailing City's top escort agency, earned the title of Martial Arts Champion at eighteen. She could handle both the respectable and the underworld, and was the real power behind the city.
Her only problem was that she was a woman.
To hide her identity, she married a wife who was barren. Desperate for a child, her wife drugged her and sent her into the room of a beautiful, cold stranger.
After a wild night, Bei Tangqing looked at the red-eyed man in bed, left a few taels of silver, and wrote two words to sum him up: "Mediocre." Then she escaped through the window.
She thought it had been nothing more than a brief fling. Who could have guessed that the man from that night was Cui Shiyu, the youngest and most ruthless powerful official in the court, the Commissioner of Salt and Iron!
Furious at the two-word review, Cui Shiyu swore he would turn the earth upside down to find the woman and make her take back the word "mediocre" to his face!
To investigate the salt trade and make money, Cui Shiyu pressed her at every turn. To protect her escort agency and earn a little extra silver, Bei Tangqing met every move with one of her own.
She thought that as long as she kept her secret identity well hidden, the unhinged official could do nothing to her.
Until Huo Xingge, the second young master of the Huo family and her first love, returned to Hailing dressed in plain white mourning clothes. He had taken the blame for her murder and spent seven years in exile.
Looking at her blackened face, Huo Xingge smiled with gentle warmth. "I've finished mourning my wife. Now it's my turn to watch over you."
A lovesick, possessive official closes in from the front, while her first love secretly tries to steal her away from behind.
One uses power to pressure people, the other throws money around, and together they turn Hailing City upside down.
