Zhaomolu

A piece of paper can destroy three generations; a new stroke of ink can turn a living person into a dead person. Dayin determined people's lives by registers. Jiang Yanshu, a small clerk in the county government, can only see the old ink marks on the paper that have been scraped, washed, and replaced. The father was suddenly written as "the remnant of the deserted army", and the names of the 370 military dependents were also divided into the books of deserters, exterminated households, remarriages, and premature deaths. Some people use official records to seize land, change marriages, or silence their relatives. If they make the wrong mistake in their name, they will have no way out in life. Using ink as a blade, she and the cold-blooded censor Xie Xingjian went from being suspicious of each other to investigating the case side by side. But every time she forcibly examines the truth hidden by the sealing ink medicine, she will lose part of her senses. When the old case led all the way to the Qing Dynasty Records Department in Beijing, Jiang Yanshu discovered that a copy he copied seven years ago was actually the one that pushed countless people into the abyss. "People are recorded in the official register, and names cannot be taken away from them."