Three years ago, Chen Qianwen, a scholar from a poor family, and Liu Jingjing, his oiran wife, died tragically in a family feud. Everyone said that it was just a fight between the powerful and the innocent.
Only their daughter Chen Fu was dissatisfied.
She endured it for three years, hid in a back alley, set up a trap as an orphan, and accidentally rescued the fifth prince He Jingcheng who was being hunted. One is a commoner orphan with a blood feud and full of scheming, and the other is a down-and-out prince who keeps a low profile and secretly investigates old cases. The two begin to use each other and join forces to get involved in the fight for the heir and the aristocratic family.
As the salt case, military ration case, and assassination case were uncovered one after another, they discovered that behind the prince's rebellion three years ago, there was actually a reform event involving a poor family eighteen years ago. Chen Fu also finally learned that her father's abandonment of the imperial examination was not cowardly, but a way to protect his ideals.
Step by step, they brought down the relatives of the Zhou family and the powerful officials of the Xie family, but when they were about to succeed, they were stabbed in the back by the fourth prince who had been dormant for many years, and fell into a desperate situation.
From an orphan girl in a back alley to a behind-the-scenes strategist, from being obsessed with revenge to caring about the world, Chen Fu finally understands that killing the enemy is never the end. If the family does not collapse, there will be another "Chen Qianwen".
And He Jingcheng will eventually clear the prince's wrongful name and reopen his humble family's path to heaven.
Intention: Even if the body is as small as a mustard, there are always people who refuse to bow their heads. It writes about the struggle of two generations of poor people in the midst of power struggles, and about ordinary people holding on to their true hearts and ideals in troubled times.
