Veteran criminal investigator Liu Mingye transmigrates into the body of an unmarried older woman from a once-prominent official family fallen on hard times.
Her family is full of the old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled. They have no food or clothes, yet still cling to their family's airs.
With even thin porridge becoming unaffordable, Liu Mingye quickly finds herself a job: a constable under the Jingzhao Prefecture.
Just as she solves a few minor cases and starts to make a name for herself, the scumbag who was engaged to the original owner suddenly appears. In front of a crowd, he accuses her of failing to observe proper womanly virtue and pressures her to break off the engagement.
Liu Mingye gives him a piece of her mind, then gladly ends the engagement and gets back to solving cases.
Unexpectedly, the day after the engagement is called off, Liu Mingye sees her dashing former fiancé again, or rather, the man who used to be dashing, this time as a corpse.
All suspicion points to Liu Mingye, but she is thrilled by the challenge, because the unsolved case on her hands is a series of drownings...
(The serious version)
A small-time merchant drowns after a night of drinking, accidentally setting off a chain of events that stirs up the treacherous currents of Chang'an.
In this city, more magnificent and splendid than a dream, amid a golden age of peace and prosperity, evil still lurks and runs rampant in every corner: whether among the carved beams and painted rafters of grand mansions, in the temples and monasteries set apart from the world, in the villages on the outskirts where the poor gather, or even in the resplendent palaces of the Daming Palace.
From simply wanting to be a constable and earn enough to get by, to becoming famous throughout the capital and rising to the highest rank, only Liu Mingye knows what keeps her going.
It is not power, nor wealth, nor love. It is simply what her heart desires.
(Set in a fictional world inspired by the Tang dynasty. The author is not a professional historian and is mainly here to tell a story.)
Theme: Walk the straight path, and you can go the distance.
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