After her father died defending a border city, they not only failed to award him any honors, they accused him of opening the gates to the enemy. Before his body was cold, his entire family was convicted of a crime.
Only she was saved by her father's former soldiers, who risked their lives to rescue her.
From that day on, she remembered one name: Pei Ji.
He was the one ordered to investigate the city's fall, and the one who personally confirmed her father's guilt of treason, turning a general who had defended a besieged city to the death into a traitor reviled by all.
She changed her name and married Pei Ji's most trusted aide.
It took her three whole years to finally reach his side.
Later, her husband was ordered out of the capital and vanished thousands of miles away. His body was never found; all that came back were a few bloodstained scraps of cloth and a jade pendant.
Everyone said he was dead.
On the day of the funeral, Pei Ji came in person to pay his respects.
Through the funeral hall's rows of white mourning banners, he saw her kneeling before the coffin for the first time.
And from then on, he developed feelings he should never have had.
He pressed her at every turn, ruined her reputation, cut off every way out, and even forced her to break with her late husband's family, all so he could make this subordinate's widow his own.
Theme: The truth deserves to be seen.
