Edited by Hanlin from a humble family×Daughter of the Minister of Household Affairs
The trap he set using his sincerity as bait ended up trapping himself.
He is a young man from a poor family, with a literary character, elegant and gentle as the breeze, but deep down in his heart is a hatred that will burn the world. He studies diligently and eventually enters the Hanlin Academy, investigates and sets up a network step by step, and takes revenge on the then Minister of Household Affairs.
She is the legitimate daughter of the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, with an eccentric spirit like a little fox, and a sincere and kind heart like the sun. She fell in love with him as soon as she saw him, and she held her sincerity in front of him, but she never thought that she had always been just a tool for his revenge.
Xie Heng worked step by step, taking advantage of Yun Qian's feelings to avenge her father who was "corrupt and perverting the law". He took advantage of her trust to maneuver between the Imperial Academy and the court. Every approach was wrapped in calculations, and every tenderness was carefully disguised.
On New Year's Day that year, which was the festive season, Xie Heng accepted Yun Qian's invitation and went to the temple fair with him. In front of Yuelao Temple, where incense is flourishing, the two of them asked for a concentric lock.
Xie Heng looked at the lock and explained its meaning, saying that the lock could tie the marriage together and hope to stay together year after year.
After hearing this, Yun Qian's eyes rolled, her index finger gently attached to his chest, deliberately getting close to him, and she exhaled like a blue breath and asked: "Then can this lock also lock the young master's heart?"
Xie Heng's heart moved slightly, but his face remained calm.
After the red rope was hung on the lock, Yun Qian threw the key directly into the lake nearby, smiling slyly: "Young master can't run away now."
Xie Heng looked at her bright smiling face, and for the first time, there were ripples beyond calculation in his heart.
Xie Heng finally pieced together the "evidence" and joined forces with the censor to impeach Yun Zhongwen in the court for embezzling disaster relief funds. His words were sincere and every word was bloody, which shocked all the officials.
Yun Zhongwen was temporarily suspended for investigation, and Yun Qian rushed to the Hanlin Academy to question Xie Heng.
Xie Heng looked at her red eyes, took off his disguise for the first time, and said coldly: "Every grain of rice that your father was greedy for back then is stained with the blood of my parents. I have always been close to you only for revenge."
Yun Qian felt like she was struck by lightning. She thought of all the tenderness in the past, which turned out to be all calculations. She cried and tore into pieces the poetry collection he gave her: "Xie Heng, I really misjudged you!"
Looking at Li Mingyue's decisive back, Xie Heng's heart felt empty, even more painful than when he learned about the death of his parents. He sat there every night with her smile in front of him, and he was shocked to realize that those "used" times had become the only light in his gloomy life.
Not long after the two separated, Xie Heng received a small box from Yun Qian's trustee, which contained the key to the concentric lock - it turned out that on New Year's Day that year, she was reluctant to part with it and did not actually throw the key into the lake.
This treasured key became the sharpest knife that pierced Xie Heng's heart.
Xie Hengcai was shocked to realize that the throbbing of use had already taken root. But when he found out the truth, her father turned out to be an innocent person who had been slandered, and his revenge was completely wrong from the beginning...
Purpose: Protect the homeland and the country