Lawyer Li Jinyu has just won a case when she transmigrates into the body of an eleven-year-old peasant girl in the Ming Dynasty. The girl was beaten to death for supposedly showing disrespect in her speech to a powerful official.
And that's not all. From the start, she has to contend with the worst flood Zhejiang Province has seen in decades. Her entire family is displaced, their lives reduced to hardship and deprivation, with barely enough food or clothing. The suffering is truly beyond words.
But Li Jinyu isn't daunted. Instead, she's grateful to have so many family members. She leads them in growing chili peppers and selling spicy and sour noodles, hot pot, and other delicacies, helping them grow prosperous and live comfortably.
She studies the laws of the Great Ming in depth, rises through the ranks, and becomes a gifted advocate, the greatest female litigator of her age, fighting for justice on behalf of ordinary people.
She offers strategies and solves one extraordinary case after another: corruption in Hangzhou's famine-relief grain supplies, the mystery surrounding an Assistant Commissioner who abducted children, the theft of the Map of the Realm, and more...
It's well written. I hope you don't get into a romantic relationship, or at least it will happen later.
The plot is exciting and full of twists and turns.