After unexpectedly transmigrating into the late Ming dynasty as a lowly clerk, Li Rui faces an officialdom rife with corruption and a people struggling to survive. He has no intention of playing by the usual rules.
He brings in the county’s most famous storyteller and fashions himself into a fearless detective who defies the powerful and cracks one extraordinary case after another. Using modern publicity techniques, he sets up a live-streaming courtroom at the county yamen, summoning corrupt officials one after another to face public trials.
But what he never expected was for the Embroidered Uniform Guard from the capital to suddenly come knocking…