That year the Shen family was destroyed.
She was eighteen, her father was beheaded, and her fiancé broke off the engagement.
She fled from Nanjing to Yangzhou and changed her surname.
The Gu family broke off the engagement that year.
He was twenty-one and did not dare to disobey his father's orders, so he hid the original letter of appointment secretly for three years.
Three years later, on February 17th, she opened a camphor wood box alone at Suji Tea Shop in Yangzhou;
On February 19, his official ship docked at Yangzhou Pier.
In her hands were fragments of her father's genealogy and a copy of the royal family's book that had been entrusted to her before her death.
In his arms was a thousand-tael silver note of unknown origin, with a dark cinnabar pattern on the center of the note and the payee: De Quantang.
One is for revenge, the other is for the truth.
But at night on the canal, the lantern swayed and then stabilized——
It seemed like someone was lighting a lamp over there and looking at each other.
Intention: Above revenge there is justice, above justice there is justice. A woman can use her sobriety, accounting and forbearance to overturn her late father's case in the male-dominated shopping mall and court without losing the bottom line; a man can make a more difficult choice between family and party struggle for the truth and love.