The Cui family in Boling had a legitimate daughter who was envied by everyone. She was dignified and polite, gentle and submissive.
No one knew that her hands were shaking when she squatted in front of her late mother's dowry and touched a jade pendant with the word "Cui" engraved on it.
My mother did not die of illness. The person who poisoned her lived in the same courtyard. He greeted her every night and smiled more kindly than his own mother. But the letter that my mother really wanted to protect was about two hundred thousand shi of food in Youzhou - someone in Fan Yang was preparing for war, and someone in the Cui family was trying to silence them.
Zheng Bingwen, the eldest grandson of the Zheng family in Xingyang, was a well-known romantic talent in Chang'an City. He was a prolific poet and drinker and did not care about political affairs. When Cui Wanzhao met him for the first time, she felt that this man was not simple - his method of rescuing her was so precise that he seemed to have known this scene would happen.
She used marriage to get close to him and investigate her mother's death; he used her identity to cover a dark network spanning five surnames, predicting that An Lushan would rebel two years ago, but unfortunately no one in the civil and military circles believed in him.
Two people with their own thoughts, tested and used each other in the last spring of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but they became sincere.
Then An Lushan's cavalry came.
The five surnames and the seven have been prosperous for hundreds of years, and they will collapse at any time. She changed from a chess piece to a chess player, and he changed from a son of a noble family to an outlaw. The jade pendant hidden in the dowry was the last key left to her by her mother - and the only way to survive in troubled times.
Anshi's cavalry crushed Chang'an, and the five surnamed families collapsed. She was no longer a pawn at the mercy of others, and he no longer pretended to be peaceful. That jade pendant was the last key left to her by her mother - it opened not only family secrets, but also the life and death choices of the five surnames in troubled times, and the fate of two people who should not be tempted and risked everything.
Purpose: When a system is maintained at the cost of human life and humanity as a sacrifice, its collapse is not a tragedy but a way of heaven; and in this collapse, some people choose not to be chess pieces - this choice itself is the final dignity of human beings.