In the third year of Yong'an in Daliang Dynasty, Shen Yuan, the most prestigious female official of the Ministry of Justice in the capital, was imprisoned for a tragedy that wiped out her entire family. In the lobby of the Ministry of Punishment, the apprentice she personally taught presented the irrefutable evidence that her fiancé, who had once sworn to God, turned around and married another noble girl. Everyone in the city was laughing at her joke.
Three years later, the border cavalry invaded Chang'an, and the new emperor's first imperial edict after he ascended the throne was to ask her to take charge of the Ministry of Punishment.
