A calculating orphan bent on revenge VS a cool, sharp-tongued judge of the Court of Judicial Review
She hides that she is a woman and plans every move; he refuses to accept the status quo and watches the game with a cool gaze.
At the end of the Liang dynasty, five planets converged, and prophecies of a change in dynasty spread across the land. The Shen family fell into disaster, but the legitimate daughter narrowly escaped and was sheltered by the Qinghe Cui clan for sixteen years. Under the assumed name Wen Xuanshang, she disguises herself as a man and returns to Chang’an, armed with formidable martial skills. She joins the Court of Judicial Review, determined to clear her father’s name and rescue her mother.
Lu Zhao, the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, is the emperor’s nephew by marriage. Acting on a secret imperial order, he must both keep the Crown Prince and Prince Jin in check as they vie for the throne, and investigate old cases. The massacre of the Shen family is one of them.
The new young man in green robes at the Court of Judicial Review arouses Lu Zhao’s suspicions. The two test each other while taking advantage of one another. With the struggle for the throne intertwined with the currents of unrest among the regional warlords, the two risk their lives in a contest of strategy between two formidable minds, played out on the political stage of a turbulent Great Wei.
Theme: No one is born to be a minister or general. People must make themselves strong.
