The Thief and the Young Master Narcissus

Case Summaries:

1. The clinic medicine-testing case: If you eat and live there for free, you might as well test the medicine.

2. The military coat case in the court: Go the long way around to line your pockets.

3. The solid-gold Buddha statue case: Hide your assets and fool yourself.

4. The case framing the prefect: Put your own people in important positions.

5. The drunken horseback-riding case: My father is the Vice Minister of War. Who dares arrest me?

6. The disaster relief fundraising case: A perfect chance to curry favor with and bribe the powerful.

7. The border collusion case: You can’t get away with turning black into white.

Ending:

The truth comes to light.

A pawn for embezzling money.

A fit of rage brings on a serious illness.

Arrested and awaiting execution…

Xian'er bravely saved the young master from drowning, only for his mother to take a liking to her. Her maternal uncle schemed to place her in the young master's household as a maid.

Four years later, a plague and a thief changed her fate, leaving her abandoned on the road to the capital.

She couldn’t bear to relive the terror of nearly starving to death, nor could she bring herself to pawn the only thing the young master had left behind. In the end, she became the very kind of person she and the young master had hated most.

As time passed, the events of the past seemed farther and farther away. The road she walked now was arduous, but she still felt it had meaning.

Until she met her young master again. The boy from back then had become the chief constable of the capital. How would she face him?

When the path of the chivalrous thief she had chosen reached its end, she suddenly realized that none of it meant anything. This so-called chivalrous thief had been nothing but a pawn, helping the young master's father, the Imperial Uncle, amass wealth.

What would she choose…