At the age of thirty-five, the person in charge of the accident, Zhou Jiming (Shen Yan), was laid off by a large factory and instantly became a stateless refugee in the Dasheng Dynasty. In order to avoid being caught by the officials, he took away the official certificate of a corpse and pretended to be the new chief registrar. Unexpectedly, on his first day in office, the first case he received was to investigate the cause of "his" death.
The granary is empty, but the dead are collecting the grain; the canal has never docked, but the account books are accurate. All clues ultimately point to Prince Jing who has been dead for twenty years.
When others use rules to suppress others, he uses accounts, procedures and people's hearts to break the situation. From a stateless refugee to a court chess player, what he wants to investigate is not a murder case, but the false accounts that the entire dynasty has hidden for twenty years.
