Female protagonist's perspective:
Kong Wenjin was originally a flowery eldest lady, but her home was confiscated and she was made a prisoner. The person escorting her was the government servant Chen Jiechen, who was the kind of ant she had never been exposed to before she fell into the clouds.
The journey was treacherous and she was threatened, robbed and even almost raped. Only Chen Jiechen, although he couldn't stand her squeamish young lady behavior, still protected her silently. She didn't know his motives, but there was nothing better than money to deal with such a bastard.
Later, as she wished, Chen Jiechen changed from the jailer who escorted her to the follower who protected her. He was seriously injured in order to save her. But for Kong Wenjin, who had her house confiscated and exiled, this little kindness was of no use to her, not to mention that she also gave money.
So after Chen Jiechen was seriously injured trying to save her, she left him behind.
When they met again, he changed from a jailer to a Qianhu, escorted her fiancé to prison, and looked back at her under the moonlight, his eyes were calm and stern as she had never seen before.
"I'm sorry, Miss Kong." He said hoarsely, then took her hand and forced her away, just as indifferently as when he escorted her, "This time you fell into my hands again."
Later, when the new emperor ascended the throne, the powerful governor Chen Jiechen knelt on one knee at the top of the palace to straighten her skirt.
Everyone knows that he is cold and cruel, but what he carefully holds in his palm is an old shackle that has been smoothed off: "It locked you before, but now it locks me."
Motto: You can get up again even if you fall to the bottom