Shen Zhaoning is the noblewoman who is the best at settling accounts in the capital and has a photographic memory of numbers. She can tell the rise and fall of the entire family from a single account.
Then she calculated an account that shouldn't exist - her father was secretly helping the third prince to seize the throne. Fifteen thousand taels of silver have dragged a century-old family into the abyss.
On the day when the regent Pei Qizhou came to investigate the case, she glanced at him through the screen. He pushed the tea cup half an inch away, and she saw it—he was looking at her too.
From mutual testing to the snowy border, he pulled her into his arms on the eve of the decisive battle: "I came back alive, not for Daliang, but for you."
The willows in Chang'an are new. She was the shore he finally landed on after wandering for half his life, and he was the freedom she found in shackles.
Intent: Two trapped beasts redeem each other at the peak of power