What is it like to transmigrate as the daughter of a disgraced minister, then enter the government under your dead younger brother's male identity?
Shen Qingshuang's answer is simple: survive first, then solve the case that needs solving.
In her previous life, she was a criminal prosecutor. What she excelled at was never guessing the culprit, but examining the evidence. Yet she never imagined that a ten-year-old cold case and an incomplete military grain ledger would drag her step by step into the deepest reaches of the imperial court.
Everyone says her father, Shen Ting'an, was a loyal minister who died unjustly.
But as buried military grain, witnesses missing for years, and tampered case files gradually come to light, she begins to realize that not a single answer in this old case is as simple as it first appeared. Thirty thousand border soldiers who never made it home, military provisions that vanished ten years ago, and secrets hidden above the golden throne are all forcing her to reconsider the truth everyone had long since accepted.
At court, some want to use her, some want to protect her, and others would be delighted if "Shen Yunfan" kept his mouth shut forever.
But Shen Qingshuang insists on pursuing the case.
She survived under a man's name and entered the imperial court in a man's identity. But by the time she reaches the end of the investigation, she will have to face more than just an old case.
If a woman wants to stand openly and honorably in the imperial hall, why must she first become a man?
Once, she was the exception who existed outside all the rules.
Later, she wanted to change that rule.
What she wants is for those who come after her to never have to be exceptions again.
