[Five-Year-Old Cutie] [Mastermind Behind the Scenes] [Mystery Solving] [System] [Overwhelming Intelligence]
Five-year-old Bao Xiaobao is a farm boy from a family so poor they can barely afford food. To buy meat buns for his little sister, Yaya, he sets up a stall outside the county yamen, earning money by writing letters for people.
On his first day in office, the newly appointed county magistrate, a useless rich second-generation heir, stumbles upon a locked-room murder case and frets so much he keeps pulling at his hair.
Bao Xiaobao toddles into the courtroom on his short little legs, takes one look at the corpse, then points out the fatal flaw in the back hall with just a few words, helping the magistrate identify the real culprit on the spot.
The useless magistrate is so amazed that afterward he wants to take a five-year-old child as his master!
From then on, the county yamen gains a comic double act.
The little boy sits behind a screen, eating candied hawthorns and giving orders, while the seventh-rank county magistrate reads from a script and solves cases out front.
Relying on the Master Detective Reputation System and modern forensic science, Bao Xiaobao helps his bargain-basement apprentice crack one strange case after another, from the theft of official silver to the mystery of his parents' disappearance years ago.
Before long, the useless magistrate rises through the ranks to become Minister of Justice, while Bao Xiaobao uses this cover to become the mastermind pulling the strings behind the Great Zhou court!
