In Linxi County, a remote backwater, the arrival of its new magistrate, Li Xiaoliu, shattered the peace. Li Xiaoliu was no real official, but an impostor. His true identity was that of a servant in the Zhao family, and a series of unlikely twists had forced him into becoming county magistrate. Faced with lazy clerks at the county yamen, local gentry who held the county in their grip, and bandits who ran rampant, Li Xiaoliu resolved to use his intelligence and courage to transform Linxi County. Thanks to a succession of fortunate twists, his official career would also flourish in the years to come.
It's interesting to watch