My Sister Gave Her Life to Save Me, and I Became Chief Minister, Slashing My Way Through the Court

Lu Chen, a top criminal defense lawyer, transmigrates into a poor young man in the Great Yu dynasty, with only his younger sister to depend on.

His father died unjustly in the Yellow River, and his sister was left with chronic illness after saving him. The masterminds behind it all reach from local officials and powerful Jiangnan clans to the capital's nobility and the heart of the cabinet. They close in layer by layer, leaving the poor no chance to survive.

Confronted with a cannibalistic bureaucracy and its powerful elites, Lu Chen carves out a ruthless path to power, wielding the law as his weapon.

With the brilliant criminal defense logic and forensic accounting skills he honed in his previous life, he turns the Great Yu Code into a chopping block hanging over every official's head.

He exploits the letter of the law, builds an airtight chain of evidence, and kills legally from the heights of royal justice and imperial authority.

Starting as a nobody in Gusu City, he uses his growing power and ironclad evidence to uproot his enemies.

He topples local tyrants, brings down Jiangnan's supposedly upright clans, crushes the empress dowager's relatives, and brings the powerful chief councilor to justice.

In this world, one step back means your family is destroyed and everyone you love dies.

Since my sister once risked her life to protect me, I'll rise all the way to the cabinet, become its ruthless chief councilor, and hold the power of life and death over the realm. I'll slaughter every jackal in the court!

Lu Chen climbs the steps to the imperial throne room over the bodies of his enemies, wiping out the treacherous officials in court, all so that on a spring day when flowers bloom, he can wrap his sister's chilly little hands in his broad red robe and ask her with a smile:

“Little missus, do you like this peaceful world your big brother won for you?”