I Bind Myself to a Villain Identity Every Day

[A Dream of Red Mansions + Embroidered Uniform Guard + System + satisfying face-slapping + political intrigue + late Ming dynasty]

Zhang Zhao transmigrated into the body of an Embroidered Uniform Guard commander in the second year of the Chongzhen reign and bound himself to the "Punish the Corrupt and Eliminate Evil" System. His very first mission was to arrest Xue Pan for committing murder in broad daylight.

He got a golden treasure chest, mastered the Taixu Blade Technique, and pocketed ten thousand taels of gold.

He thought that would be the end of it once he submitted the case, but Xue Pan confessed everything in jail.

Jia Yucun, prefect of Yingtian, had taken three thousand taels in bribes, altered the autopsy report, suppressed the victim's family, and ruled a murder case as "death by accidental injury."

Zhang Zhao smiled. The System's new mission: arrest Jia Yucun.

But Jia Yucun was no Xue Pan.

He was a fourth-rank official, a successful candidate in the imperial examinations, backed by the Jia family, and he'd even sent money to Qian Qianyi of the Donglin faction that very night.

Qian Qianyi gave Jia Yucun a piece of advice: "Dead men don't talk."

The middleman surnamed Zhang in the south of the city suddenly died overnight.

Zhang Zhao came up empty-handed, and the chain of evidence was broken. Xu Xianchun above him began to back out, the Rongguo Mansion was stirring, and Qian Qianyi was putting out word in court that the Embroidered Uniform Guard should be "kept in check."

Everyone thought Zhang Zhao was finished.

But they had forgotten that Zhang Zhao still had one more card to play.