Ancient suspense + reasoning + refreshing contrast
When the abacus rings, there must be an unjust case.
Dressed as an ancient official, Shen Suanzhi has no golden fingers, only an ebony abacus.
Others rely on torture instruments to resolve cases, but he relies on mental arithmetic - the accounts don't match up? Dial it. Time conflict? Dial it.
To commit murder in a secret room, he made a loophole of 0.5 Taels of silver.
After a series of disappearances, he figured out the stronghold of the traffickers.
The whole government called him "a dead official", but he just asked not to work overtime.
It wasn't until he miscalculated a person with his own hands that he realized that the human heart is the most difficult thing to calculate.
Despair.