The Law Practitioner

Chang Menghong, a smart and beautiful law student, was born into a farming family whose parents were at odds. When her father was jailed after being falsely accused of murder while drunk, her ambitions changed. She worked her way through school while trying to save him, and in the course of defending him in court, formed an enduring bond with the legal profession. To save her seriously ill mother, she appealed to the public for help, attracting the attention of many men. At a critical moment, the dashing lawyer Yao Gongping and the upright judge Wei Zhengyi entered her romantic life in turn, setting the stage for a series of thrilling, moving stories.

After enduring countless hardships and clearing her father's name, Chang Menghong had grown into a mature legal professional, both in her outlook and her work. After careful consideration, she married Wei Zhengyi, who had long misunderstood her but never given up. Thus, "May fairness endure and justice be ever at our side" became an extraordinary legend of a generation of legal professionals striving for truth, goodness, and beauty while fighting falsehood, evil, and ugliness. In the end, the author uses stirring yet profound prose to explain an eternal truth: Justice may be late, but it is never absent.

The book is 220,000 words long. Its moving story and touching, intricate plot have led critics to call it a highly readable, all-encompassing "textbook on life in the legal world."