The day he passed the imperial examinations should have been his finest hour, but instead, it became the moment he fell into the abyss!
A struggle of political intrigue and power in the officialdom, and a brutal contest of human nature.
Shen Yan, a brilliant scholar from a poor family, denounced a corrupt eunuch at the Qionglin Banquet. All his impassioned fury earned him was a demotion: he was banished to Yunya County, a place known as “Where Even Ghosts Fear to Tread,” and left to die!
Barren mountains and treacherous rivers? Surrounded by wolves and tigers!
The deputy magistrate smirked and demanded bribes, local tyrants galloped through the streets, and the previous magistrate's bones had barely grown cold. Venomous snakes slipped into his bed; a bloody finger dangled from his door... This was a death trap that devoured people whole!
Honest officials? Nothing but lambs waiting for slaughter!
Shen Yan crushed the jade pendant that embodied his principles, his eyes turning cold. “Good people can't survive in this world? Then... I'll use evil to fight evil, and outscheme the schemers!”
Watch how this abandoned son of a poor family:
• Turns enemies into weapons! He pits the local tyrants against each other, lets blood flow at the docks, and reaps the rewards!
• Wields the law as a blade! In court, he invokes the law to execute evil young masters and clip their henchmen's claws!
• Weaves a web of schemes! When they threaten him with a severed finger, he sets an astonishing deadly trap and makes the wolves devour one another!
• Takes command of the game! From a lowly seventh-rank official to a master strategist, he uses people’s hearts as pieces and plots to slay the gods!
“You see me as a pawn? Then watch how this ‘discarded piece’ overturns the board and takes control of the world!”
A storm rages through the sea of officialdom, and a ruthless minister rises from humble beginnings!
Really good-looking