Clearing the Wrongs: Records of Macheng's Mysterious Cases

A rotting corpse was found on the deserted beach, and everyone said it was Yang's. Her husband, Tu Rusong, was convicted of killing his wife and abandoning her body. He was beaten and became a well-known wife murderer in Macheng. But Su Jianbai, a widower who had lived in seclusion for many years, opened the coffin and examined it, and only said one sentence: "This is not a woman." In one sentence, the ironclad case of killing his wife was solved on the spot. Immediately afterwards, an even more shocking truth surfaced—— The "dead" Yang is actually still alive. And the nameless corpse used for conviction turned out to be that of a silenced salesman. Using a corpse to falsely accuse a husband, faking death to escape, a widower committing fraud, the county magistrate suppressing the case, collusion between officials and gentry, murder and silencing... A rotting corpse on a desert beach does not reveal a family scandal. It was a shady secret that the entire Macheng County government did not dare to see the light of.