[Orphaned Daughter of a Convict × "Enemy" Who Destroyed Her Family]
Ten years ago, on a snowy night, seven-year-old Shen Qingci huddled inside a hidden cabinet and watched through a crack in the door as her entire family was convicted.
The hand covering her mouth had a scar on its wrist. She remembered it for ten years, and searched for it for ten years.
Ten years later, she found that scar on the wrist of Xie Linyuan, the youngest grand secretary in all of Great Jing. He was the very man who had written the imperial order for her family's arrest and overseen their execution.
She hated him to the bone. But he was the one who pulled her from the water when she fell in, and the one who shielded her from a falling beam in a fire. The pills he left by her pillow in the dead of night bore the character "Xie."
He never defended himself. He let her hate him and let the world condemn him. Where she couldn't see, he rescued her from certain death time and time again.
Only when the sealed case files finally came to light did she learn the truth: On the night her family was destroyed, he had entered the scheme under imperial orders. Outside the execution grounds, he used his infamous reputation as armor and his life as a wager, protecting her for ten whole years.
The man she had once sworn to kill had actually been the one who saved her.
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