In the twenty-second year of the Zhaoning era, an unidentified corpse appeared floating in the Yong'an River.
Having lived a second life, Pei Yanzhi knew this body would lead to a major case that would shake the court and the realm.
To change how things had ended in his previous life, he decided to get involved ahead of time.
At the same time, Xie Tingzhou, who had come from a later era, realized that everything unfolding before him was gradually diverging from the history he knew.
A floating corpse, 270,000 taels in disaster relief funds, and an old case from nineteen years ago.
When the past he experienced contradicts the historical records, whose version is the truth?