As a young, renowned upright official of the third rank, Qi Chuan unexpectedly confessed to embezzling disaster relief silver in public on the day of escort, courting death resolutely.With the silver missing and charges illogical, the court was thrown into an uproar. Yet amid imperial doubt and colleagues’ disdain, he knelt firm and begged for execution at the city gate.This absurd self-destruction was in fact his grand scheme—using himself as bait to fight for his nation in a hopeless dead end.
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