Just as Lu Mingyuan was about to be named Partner of the Year, he transmigrated.
The good news: in this life, he has an extraordinary memory and never forgets anything he sees.
The bad news: his family is crushed beneath a fraudulent contract. His father has been framed and jailed, their family fortune is gone, and he himself is a lowly copyist in the county yamen's prison office, scorned by everyone and not even allowed to handle a legal complaint.
In his previous life, he was a top lawyer who maneuvered carefully in court and made every word count.
In this life, he is a powerless nobody outside the courtroom, not even qualified to be a legal advocate, dismissed as a "lowborn scribbler."
But before he can throw in the towel, fate flips the table first.
A "mute theft case" that no one dares take lands in his hands. The witness testimony and physical evidence seem "conclusive," and his opponent is a local legal tyrant in league with officials and gentry.
Everyone is waiting to see this ignorant little clerk get in over his head and come away battered.
Lu Mingyuan adjusts his nonexistent glasses and smiles.
The chain of evidence? I'll break it.
Procedural loopholes? I'll exploit them.
Legal interpretation? I'll decide it.
From then on, the Great Qian Dynasty's judicial system gains an unconventional "disruptor of order."
Well written