Spring, the seventeenth year of Jinghe.
A weed grew under the wall of the prison of the Ministry of Punishments. Shen Zhiwei squatted in the shadows, picking at the moss in the cracks of the bricks with her nails - this was the first day she was rescued from death row by Pei Zhao, the censor Zhongcheng, as the daughter of an official who was guilty of "grabbing military pay".
She had a heart condition and could not live more than three years. He was tortured by castration, and life was worse than death.
Two people living in ashes use pen and ink as a blade to dig out the truth in Jinghe's thirteen-year old case. Military pay, iron mines, the palace, Beidi, the whereabouts of 400,000 taels of silver, the injustice of 300 human lives, a web woven by the emperor himself.
She wrote the character "Zhi" and wiped away tears in the portrait, and he said it looked like an old friend.
She tore up the map and exchanged her life for him to survive. He burned himself in the palace to prove her innocence with his death. I have never crossed the thunder pond in my life, I can only support each other with my thoughts.
Intention: The crushing of individuals by power and the weak resistance of individuals