The Jiangnan traveling physician Xu Wenzhou and the Heluo Top Scholar Pei Yanqing met during the capital’s spring examination. One guarded his patients’ lives, while the other guarded justice on paper. Fifteen years later, Pei Yanqing used a confession that could not overturn the verdict to send Xu Wenzhou out of the fatal court trap they had been drawn into together.
Theme: A Same-Sex Story under Imperial Power
