Osmanthus of Old

In her previous life, Cui Jiahe spent her entire life as a virtuous wife, only to be abandoned by her family and die of illness in a remote courtyard. Only as she lay dying did she learn that her late fiance, Shen Shao, had been executed by the emperor for investigating a major corruption case, leaving him a lone, loyal official.

When she opened her eyes one day, she had been reborn on the day of her fifteenth birthday. The engagement was still in place, and the Shen family had not yet fallen.

In this new life, Cui Jiahe would never again be a helpless clay doll for others to manipulate. She secretly kept evidence of her family's crimes and, taking advantage of her foreknowledge, resolved to carve out a path to survival for herself. But just as she was preparing to break off the engagement, her former fiance, who had been so gentle and refined in her previous life, presented her with a lavish gift and began pressing her at every turn.

As she tested him, she was stunned to discover that Shen Shao had also been reborn!

One would reopen the case in the open, while the other would settle accounts in secret. They hit it off at once, marrying first and falling in love later as they joined forces to set their plan in motion. With her peerless skill at the Dragon Gate Ledger, she would untangle the world's corrupt accounts and break the shackles of the great clans; he would make himself a piece on the board, advancing step by step as he swore to topple this murderous court.

And Shen Shao's younger sister, a smiling tiger who wielded ruthless methods and commanded the Bureau of Investigation, was hiding a secret of her own.

After a lifetime's turn of the wheel, they were determined to win back a game that had once ended in total defeat.