Cast Out as a Bride, Back as the Auditor
Shen Yuwei was sold into the Fang house as a bride at twenty and cast out three years later with a letter of divorce. Now she walks back through the same red gate in a jade-green official robe, with an abacus in her hand and the stern censor Yan Shuo at her side, carrying an imperial warrant to audit every book of the Fang house. The household kneels. Madam Cui, the matron who used to have her pour the tea, does not know her. Only the old cook will. Yuwei has one page that the house has been hunting for three years, sewn into the lining of the oldest ledger, and a long list of things the Fang house would rather leave uncounted. Ten episodes of bribes that are entered as bribes, a second wedding audited by the guests, a perfect ledger whose ink is still wet, and a family that kneels twice in the same courtyard.
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