【成化十四年】Ding Rong x Wang Zhi || a darker AU

completed 12-06-2020 Song used: The vague plot I imagined as I was making this: -In this, Wang Zhi is fully a little bastard -The Western Depot is set up as it was historically and Chenghua Emperor is a paranoid and insecure as he was irl -Wang zhi rubs elbows with his rat bastard friends, the villainous trio -It is not fulfilling bc the would sell him out for a corn chip and vice versa -Ding Rong is Shang Ming’s underling who Wang Zhi steals sways after noticing his under appreciated skills -Ding Rong doesn’t particularly know why he was transferred and there’s a learning curve in terms of getting used to each other, but once they do, ohh boy!! Let the reign of terror begin!! -Meanwhile, Sui Zhou and Tang Fan have met up after starting to investigate various cases in the capital, some of which point back to the mysterious Western Depot -But uh oh! investigating the Western Depot is a no-no! And rongzhi and suitang slowly make enemies of each other because even t