The Fragrance of a Thousand Pieces of Gold and Medicine: She Was Locked up in a Deep House by Powerful Ministers

This is a historical romance novel set during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty. The story revolves around Yang Dinglai, a talented man from Huainan. He was born into a family of Jinshi scholars from the fifth generation. He was a high school prospect when he was young. However, by chance, he met Cha, the daughter of an imperial physician. The two had similar interests and secretly fell in love. However, the Cha family was forcibly married to the powerful minister Pan Qing, and Yang Dinglai was framed by Pan Qing and was involved in the unjust case of stealing private property from an official's family. The novel takes "abandoning officialdom" as the main line, and profoundly shows Yang Dinglai's difficult choice between the glory of his family, his fame in the imperial examination, and his deep-rooted love. In order to protect his true feelings, he did not hesitate to fight against power, and was even willing to end the glorious tradition of five generations of Jinshi in his family. The work combines historical reality and artistic creation. It not only contains the darkness of the imperial examination and officialdom, but also has a touching description of love. Through highly symbolic scenes such as "tearing off official robes" and "dropping a gold plaque", it expresses the decisive courage of individuals to resist the oppression of ethics and pursue freedom and true love. It is a chapter-length masterpiece full of dramatic tension and humanistic care.