It mainly describes the protagonist Deng Qingyun. After being transferred from the army, he was placed in the Discipline Inspection Commission of a poor county in northwest Hubei as a disciplinary inspection cadre. From then on, he began his career as an official and began his life battle against corruption like a sharp sword. The story is set in a poor county in northwest Hubei, where the officialdom is complex and corruption is serious. After the protagonist Deng Qingyun was transferred from the army, he was assigned to the County Commission for Discipline Inspection and embarked on his official career and anti-corruption road. In this poor county, economic development lags behind, the interests of all parties are intertwined, and interpersonal relationships are complicated, which has brought many difficulties to Deng Qingyun's work.
