The Treacherous Minister

【Amnesiac, highly skilled detective x cold on the outside, warm on the inside, power-hungry eunuch】 【Historical fantasy + mystery-solving + two beautiful, strong, tragic leads + mistaken identity + marriage before love + amnesia】 Zhao Yuqing is gravely injured and loses her memory. She wanders to Jianzhou, where she is rescued by a kindhearted young lady from the Jia family. To repay the favor, Zhao Yuqing, who excels in both combat and intellect, solves a murder case in the Jia household, only to nearly be silenced by corrupt local officials. At the critical moment, she is saved by Gu Yanzhi, a palace eunuch. Gu Yanzhi is a close aide to the emperor and oversees the Office of Mysteries. He is a shrewd strategist who plans everything in advance. The emperor indulges him greatly, allowing him to move freely among the imperial family and court officials. Gu Yanzhi says she is his wife, calling her “Yuqing” over and over with great affection. To get out of her predicament, Zhao Yuqing can only go along with it for now and return to the capital with him as his wife. Gu Yanzhi treats her with such gentleness and consideration that she even feels he can tell what is bothering her from the slightest furrow in her brow. But to her, Gu Yanzhi is both familiar and strange. She doesn’t know whether he had anything to do with her being gravely injured and left close to death. She can’t let down her guard, so she hides the fact that she has lost her memory. From Gu Yanzhi, she learns that she is the daughter of a butcher, and that her engagement to him was part of Crown Prince Zhao Mian’s scheme. But he says nothing about why she was found gravely injured. After she returns to the capital, someone secretly slips her a small note with twelve characters written on it: The Zhao girl is innocent. The Gu wife’s duty. Kill her and bury her well. It turns out to be Gu Yanzhi’s own handwritten order to have Zhao Yuqing killed...