On the day her family was seized, Shen Zhaotang discovered that the imperial decree ordering her father's execution was a fake.
She had been a modern restorer of ancient books before transmigrating into the body of a criminal's daughter. Her father would be executed in three days, and the whole family exiled.
In Dayong, official rank is the path to martial power. A single document can decide life and death, while one official seal can channel the strength of mountains and rivers. Everyone expected her to accept her fate, but from the scent of fresh paper and the wax marks on old seals, she discovered that an official who had been dead for ten years was still using his seal. She also uncovered that thirty thousand dan of relief grain from the northern granary had vanished without a trace.
To save her father, she began with no rank and a criminal's record. By exposing a forged edict, investigating an empty granary, and uncovering the official identity of a dead man, she earned promotion after promotion and gained control of the seals through one achievement after another.
Then, on the day she received her seal, the bell of the official registry rang five times for her.
Only then did she learn that she had already been a fifth-rank female official at the age of four.
And now, someone in the capital was holding the official seal that should have belonged to her, ordering the real Shen Zhaotang erased from the registry.
