The Marquis's household is in turmoil, and her birth mother's position is in jeopardy. She is forced to disguise herself as a man and take her legitimate brother's place in the civil service. She plans to use her modern skills in auditing accounts and balancing interests to establish herself at court, while crushing the illegitimate older brother and concubine who are plotting to seize power within the household. But the higher she rises in office, the more she attracts the attention of the young emperor.
At first, the emperor sees her as nothing more than a useful, upright official and gives her the authority to investigate farmland and reform the salt tax. But later, whenever political rivals impeach her or someone tries to harm her, this lofty ruler personally steps in to support her. Even the way he looks at her grows increasingly restrained and feverish.
"I can share half my empire with you. Why do you keep avoiding me?"
Faced with an irritable, jealous emperor laboring under the delusion that he is "making himself gay," she desperately guards her secret identity. Your Majesty, the crime of deceiving the emperor means the execution of nine generations of your family! Then, during a brush with death, the emperor takes an assassin's strike for her and accidentally discovers that she is a woman...
