Three months into the job, Shen Yan is the most unremarkable copyist in Qingyun County.
He has two secrets:
First, in his previous life he was a celestial artificer in the Bureau of Heavenly Law. He has been reincarnated for seventeen years, and no one knows he is still alive.
Second, his blank jade tablet can submit petitions to amend the Heavenly Laws. The day the young master of the Bai family showed off his skills in the street, Shen Yan filed a document, and the young master’s cultivation regressed by three years on the spot.
The whole county is saying that someone in Qingyun County can communicate with Heaven.
The Bai family searches the entire county but cannot find him. An old friend has been looking for him with a lantern for seventeen years, but Shen Yan dares not reveal himself. And beneath the county office, the well bears four carved words: This gate is yours to guard.
He pretends to be timid, pretends to be stupid, pretends to know nothing.
Only when the Heavenly Laws descend again do they understand: the copyist’s brush is the Heavenly Law itself.
