An edict can determine life or death, and a page of old documents can rewrite the political situation.
In the sixteenth year of the founding of the new dynasty, poor families praised the Qingming Dynasty in the imperial examinations, but all the important officials in the dynasty rose to high positions through a tampered fraud case.
Shen Qingwu was just the most humble female history editor in the Qingjian Department, but she was able to make witnesses "killed" by official documents speak again from the paper grain, old ink and fake seals. She teamed up with Lu Yanzhou, the young minister of Dali Temple, to overturn the case, and the people she investigated were none other than Lu Yanzhou's father, brother, and clan.
The truth was revealed, and the whole Lu family was convicted; the story stopped there, and the Shen family's guilty souls will never be named.
When Lu Yanzhou personally handed her the evidence of Lu's crime, an imperial edict came first: Shen Qingwu was ordered to write a rewrite of national history and make the old case an ironclad case forever. And the secret order to kill all witnesses was stamped with her father's private seal.
Is she redressing her father's grievance, or is she overturning the case for the real mastermind?
