Editor of Hanlin from a humble family x Daughter of the Minister of Household Affairs
In the last life, Xie Heng worked step by step, taking advantage of Shen Ling's affection 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.
The trap he set using his sincerity as bait ended up trapping himself.
Xie Heng finally pieced together the "evidence" and joined forces with the censor to impeach Shen Zhongwen in the court for embezzling disaster relief funds. His words were sincere and every word was bloody, which shocked all the officials.
Shen Zhongwen was temporarily suspended for investigation, and Shen Ling 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."
Shen Ling was struck by lightning and remembered all the tenderness in the past, which turned out to be calculations. She cried and tore into pieces the poetry collection he gave her: "Xie Heng, I really misjudged you!"
But when he found out the truth, her father turned out to be an innocent person who had been slandered, and his revenge was terribly wrong from the beginning...
So he was reborn and returned to the time when he first entered the Imperial Academy.
He will spend nine months writing the ending of his previous life.
What he didn't expect was that he would fall in love with Shen Ling in this life.
He is a young man from a poor family, with a scholarly demeanor, elegant and gentle as the breeze.
She is the legitimate daughter of the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance. She is as quirky as a little fox, and has a sincere and kind heart like the sun.
On New Year's Day of that year, which was the festive season, Xie Heng accepted Shen Ling'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, Shen Ling's eyes rolled, her index finger gently attached to his chest, deliberately getting close to him, and asked with a soft breath: "Then can this lock also lock Editor Xie's heart?"
Xie Heng's heart moved slightly, but his face remained calm.
After the red rope was hung on the lock, Shen Ling threw the key directly into the lake nearby, smiling slyly, "Editor Xie can't run away now."
Xie Heng looked at her bright smiling face and felt ripples in his heart for the first time.
His heart told him that Xie Heng seemed to like Shen Ling.
Purpose: Protect the homeland and the country