The Day My Whole Family Was Sent to the Execution Ground, I Married the Informant

On the day fifty-two members of the Shen family were led to the execution ground, Shen Zhuo received an amnesty order that could save only one Shen daughter.

Her fifteen-year-old sister was right beside her, yet Shen Zhuo wrote her own name on the order.

Her sister left her only one sentence before she died: "Shen Zhuo, don't waste the life you have left."

The price of survival was marrying Pei Zhao, the student her father had once valued above all others, and the man who had personally submitted the denunciation that sent the Shen family to the execution ground.

Everyone thought Shen Zhuo had survived so she could clear the Shen family's name.

But the first thing she uncovered was that her father really had used eighteen sentries as bait, and seventeen of them had died on the eastern front.

The Shen family was guilty.

But Pei Zhao's denunciation back then was not as clean as he thought, either.

Someone had taken genuine military orders, real dead men, and an authentic eagle seal, then pieced the truth together into a knife.

Shen Zhuo decided she would whitewash no one.

She would acknowledge the lives her father had taken.

And she would settle the score for the denunciation Pei Zhao had gotten wrong.

Yet by the end of her investigation, the hardest account to settle was still the one with Pei Zhao: the man who had destroyed her entire family with his own hands, then kept her from the execution ground.