Su Xu is the daughter of the guilty minister Su Yuanshan.
On the night when her house was ransacked, she was taken into the house of Pei Du, the Minister of Justice, and became a slave.
Pei Du.
The Manchu Dynasty called him "the powerful minister who destroyed his family". No fewer than ten families were wiped out by his hands.
He is better than anyone else in supervising the confiscation of homes - because he himself is a survivor of the family annihilation. On the night when he was eight years old, more than 300 members of the Pei family were killed, and he was the only one who survived.
Su Xu made up her mind: pretend to be the most obedient slave and endure the most difficult life.
He swallowed all his grievances into his stomach and didn't say a word even if it hurt.
But what she doesn't know is——
Pei Du hides a secret: he shares pain with a woman he has never met.
When she kowtowed, his knees hurt first.
She scratched her palm, and blood oozed from his fingertips.
She was made trouble by the servants and starved for a day. He had a stomachache in the study and couldn't hold the cup of tea.
She pretended to be obedient - "I don't dare", "That's what the Lord said", and obeyed every sentence to the end.
He pretended not to feel pain - "It has nothing to do with me" and "It's just a coincidence", and he always insisted to the end.
Two people who are best at acting are tied together by a painful thread.
She thought he didn't know.
He thought she didn't know that he knew.
Until one day——
She knelt in the rain all night.
He burned himself to death in the study.
She was poisoned in court.
He vomited blood in front of the officials.
Only then did everyone discover that there was a person living in the heart of this powerful minister.
And that person is his only weakness in this life, and also his entire armor.
Intention: stick to one's heart in desperate situations, redeem each other in suffering, and prove that love and pain are never one-way.