I Don't Want to Be Promoted: Ginkgo Is the Proof and Osmanthus Is the Date

In the tenth year of the Yongming Dynasty of the Wei Dynasty, Shen Ruzhuo, the eighth-grade chief registrar of Dali Temple, was ordered to assist in investigating a tribute transfer case. In the corner of the warehouse, she picked up a burnt ginkgo leaf - she didn't know at the time that this leaf echoed a painting hidden under a ginkgo tree outside the city, and was the waiting network that seven women had built with their lives. With her extraordinary observation and reasoning, she gradually uncovered from the dust in the archives the "Qiyao" - the seven female officials of Empress Xiao Chuo - who had laid a protective network with their lives. In addition to investigating the case, she also solved the problem of the sweet-scented osmanthus cake recipe in the Dali Temple canteen, Qian Chuanzi's monthly accounting anxiety, and Meng Tiezhu's eternal soul torture of "What to eat for lunch today?" As the military ration case, imperial examination leakage case, and mole case were solved one after another, Shen Ruzhuo discovered that he was the "Seventh Person" whom "Qi Yao" tried his best to protect, the only bloodline of the empress. However, behind the truth is a deeper whirlpool: the emperor who killed his mother, the tutor Pei Yan who ceded territory in the name of "quietness", and a shadow organization called "Eclipse". In the final court showdown, Shen Ruzhuo held the counter-edict, but gave up the throne that was within his reach. She chose to return to Dali Temple, and then went to the south of the Yangtze River to establish a women's academy, placing the unfinished ideals of "Qi Yao" in a broader future.