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The male protagonist, Lin Yang, a death-row inmate about to be executed, stops the procession of Princess Zhao Xuehe in the street. He accurately reveals the princess's secret illness, using it as leverage. He claims he was framed and pleads with the princess to clear his name in exchange for curing her illness. Despite the strong dissuasions from his attendant, Feishuang, and the officials who expose Lin Yang's crimes, Zhao Xuehe, moved by Lin Yang's plea of dying to prove his innocence, decides to give him a chance. She takes him to the Ministry of Justice for a confrontation, issuing a stern warning of "skinning him alive and tearing him apart."