During the Jing Dynasty, it was forbidden for women to be litigants. However, Shen Shu stayed in the courtroom, using a piece of legal writing and half a broken page to overturn the verdict for those who had been wronged.
The first case in Jingjing, Zhang Wang was accused of "evil daughter-in-law who killed her aunt". The prefect's desk has already put down the proposal for conviction and will only wait to send it to the Criminal Division for questioning at noon. Shen Shu overturned the case in court on the grounds that "Aconite was not arsenic, was not present in the temple, and the neighbor's evidence was changed three times". However, from the folder of the case file, he found the remaining pages of the law book of his father's old case eight years ago - the annotation was clear: "This is not a killing, but a murder."
A case of poisoning a civilian woman turned out to be the same hand used to frame her father's case eight years ago.
Pei Zhaohe, the young minister of Dali Temple, held a sign with the word "Ke" and invited her to join the game: in eight years, there were eight "iron cases" before and after Jingjing, and the techniques were the same. Shen Shu, as a private female litigator, followed the properties of the medicine, the time of day, the contradictions in confessions, the handwriting on the deed, and the seals, to uncover the truth of the serial frame-up one by one, and pointed the finger at the powerful people of the day.
In the courtroom, she is the ancient version of a legal beauty; in the undercurrent, she is a pawn who refuses to bow her head between her father's injustice and the court's situation.
It is easy to overturn a verdict, but difficult to overturn it. There is a name written on the remaining pages - and behind that name is a dead game that has been played for eight years.
Purpose: Even in the face of forbidden laws, women can prove themselves and fight for justice for others with the law and wisdom; grievances can be framed, but the truth cannot be destroyed - only truthfulness and perseverance can break the eight-year deadlock.
