The Great Yong Dynasty is rife with corruption.
Local gentry and officials collude to falsify land registers, while exorbitant taxes and levies leave the people struggling to survive.
Shen Yan, a modern audit investigator, transmigrates into another world and becomes a poor scholar with nothing but four bare walls.
Powerful families forge their books to seize farmland? He exposes the flaws in their accounts and sends the local tyrants to prison!
Cheating runs rampant in the imperial examinations? He produces irrefutable evidence and disgraces the corrupt examiners!
The imperial treasury is empty, and officials throughout the court collude in a web of corruption?
An ordinary commoner armed with an abacus and account books, he starts in the countryside, makes his way into the imperial court, and rises to the cabinet.
He uncovers the hidden accounts across the land, brings countless corrupt officials to justice, and restores the realm!
