Character tags:
Quick-witted, clever official's daughter vs. pure-hearted, shy young heir to a wealthy family
After falling into the water, Song Dai met a young man by chance. She thought they were only a brief encounter in one another's lives.
After solving the case, she boarded a small boat to leave, while the young man watched her with a heartbroken look.
She thought they would never meet again, but one day she suddenly saw him in the palace.
He snapped, "Come on. I would've come to the palace to listen to stories even without you."
Turns out she'd read too much into it.
One day, the carefree young man looked troubled.
Song Dai pretended to be utterly casual as she asked what was wrong.
He pointed to the ribbon in her hair and suggested they exchange ribbons.
She didn't really understand why, but exchanging ribbons was no big deal, so Song Dai agreed without a second thought.
He grinned and said something astonishing:
"This is our token of betrothal."
"In Nan Shao, exchanging ribbons is a symbol of betrothal."
Song Dai: I was tricked.
As a student personally trained by the emperor, Song Dai works tirelessly like any other wage earner.
One day, someone started sticking by her side and lending a hand from time to time. It let Song Dai experience the joy of delegating work.
So she came up with a plan.
If the emperor can assign tasks to people in the palace, can't she assign work to someone else, too?
Especially since, after spending a few days together, she'd found that this person was righteous and kind. He was the perfect candidate.
Xie Xunhuan: Did I agree to this?
Song Dai: Didn't you just nod? Everyone here saw it.
Xie Xunhuan (surprised): I was swatting a mosquito.
In the Wu Kingdom, powerful clans ruled, and commoners had no chance of rising in the world. Across Tingzhou, people bought official posts with money.
A scholar sought Xie Xunhuan's help, and the young man agreed without thinking twice.
He sent the scholar's tear-stained letter, written in blood, to Lin'an, but no reply came for a long time.
While looking into the case, he met someone.
She seemed like a misty dream, yet she made him reluctant to leave.
Like a thin veil of mist rising in the forest on a spring day.
Beneath the chessboard, everyone is a chess piece.
As the tangled game is painstakingly unraveled, its true face is revealed...
(The later parts will be revised little by little, hehe???(●˙?˙●))
Theme: Love means choosing one another and growing together
The author would like to correct his mistake. They are quantifiers, and there is no need to follow them with quantifiers. I see that there are many such usages later, and I hope they can be revised uniformly. [Cat head]