Order of Salvation

On a snowy day, Wen Xi is cast out by her recovered ex-husband's family, the Wangs, on the grounds that she is "childless and sickly," and abandoned outside Lin'an Prefecture's north gate. All she has is a battered old medicine box and half of her torn-up dowry inventory. Without money to enter the city or anyone to vouch for her identity, if she can't resolve things before sunset, the constables will forcibly send her away to serve as an official