At the end of the great cause, the world fell. Cui Yuehua, an abandoned daughter of an aristocratic family, survived an expulsion on a rainy night and became a medical woman in Yuzhou City. She thought she would just spend her life in the fragrance of medicine, but she didn't know that she had been involved in a bigger chess game.
The Turks in the north took advantage of the chaos and moved south, and the Duanmu clan raised troops to serve the king. The people in power used her as a bargaining chip and married her into Tuhun City. Everyone thought she was a chess piece being manipulated, but no one noticed that she had already weaved a web in her own way - using trade routes to control the northern border, using account books to calculate people's hearts, using food and grass as blades, and including the world's heroes one by one in her accounts.
She never wields a sword on the battlefield, but she can make the most elite army unable to move even an inch on her food line. She never confided her true feelings to anyone, but in silence she shouldered a debt that could not be settled.
And the person she owed something to was repaying everything for her in an almost self-destructive way. Duanmu Heng wanted to use her strategy to seize the throne, but Duan Mu Rong regarded her as a thorn in his side, and the Turkic Khan lost his foundation in her rumors. As a "well-intentioned adviseer", she forced the powerful ministers to tie their own hands at the gathering of heroes, and as a "debtor", she made the future emperor owe a debt that he could not repay throughout his life.
What she seeks has never been power, but a balance to survive in troubled times.
In this game, she played the scales, not the chess pieces.
Intention: Everything in the world can be calculated, only debts cannot be calculated and cannot be paid back