After dying, a modern criminal police officer transmigrates back to the Qin Dynasty and becomes a minor official named Shen Sheng. Each time he is killed for fighting corruption, he is reborn in the next dynasty, carrying vague memories of his past lives and beginning a new campaign against evil and corruption, all the way to the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Main storyline: Shen Sheng's personal history of fighting corruption across thirteen dynasties → the civilizational struggle between corruption and anti-corruption in China over more than two thousand years.
Core theme: One person's thousand-year lonely journey against the evil in human nature, and the evolution in understanding from punishing corruption through law to preventing it through institutions.
