In the winter of the twenty-fourth year of Yuan Qi, books were burned on a snowy night in the capital, and the Su family, a century-old civil servant, was overturned.
A pure family, clean from generation to generation, not attached to powerful people or forming cliques.
Because he blocked the powerful official Liu Song's path to monopolizing scholars, he was charged with the crime of slandering the imperial court and was executed by his entire family.
Only the legitimate daughter Su Qingyan escaped death and hid in a border town in the north for three years.
In the past, she was a scholarly girl in the golden palace and jade palace, but now she is an unknown person in the windy and sandy market place.
She hides her edge, collects her classics and history, and buries a bloody feud. She lives a humble and inconspicuous life, just waiting for an opportunity to enter the game.
A notice in the border town made an exception, recruiting scribes for both men and women, which became her only way to survive.
The world laughs at the absurdity of a woman entering a public life, and laughs at her for not overestimating her abilities.
No one knows that in the heart of this humble orphan girl, there is a chess game of redressing injustices in the entire capital.
She started as a file clerk at the lowest level, looking for clues in old documents and archives, and strategizing step by step amid the ups and downs of the officialdom.
Hide wisdom, be patient, borrow strength, and break the situation.
When they meet Xie Linyuan, a powerful minister who is hidden in both the government and the public, the two begin with trials, engage in games, and grow together side by side.
If he doesn't save her from the abyss, she won't rely on him for her future.
She cleared away the darkness by herself, cleared away the stigma by herself, and reestablished the name of the Su family.
A tiny body holding a slip can turn the sea.
One woman can set the world right.
Purpose: Everyone knows that it is difficult for a woman to enter the court, and it is difficult for a humble woman to shake the powerful.
Su Qingyan, as the orphan of a guilty minister, broke through the shackles of the world and rose from the lowest level as a public servant. With a piece of paper, a sober mind, and half a lifetime of forbearance, he uncovered the shady curtain of powerful officials and cleared the centuries-old injustice of a noble family.
She does not seek power or glory, does not rely on the protection of others, uses her small body to uphold justice, and uses her ordinary life to defeat destiny, proving that women can also hold letters and manage politics, stand in court, and correct the world.