The Great Ming Criminal Record

In the eleventh year of the Zhengtong era of the Ming dynasty, sixteen-year-old Chu Tingyue takes up a post in the Zhejiang Division of the Ministry of Justice's Criminal Investigation Bureau.

A well-born young woman who inexplicably seeks death, a bizarre soul-stealing tower dating back two hundred years, a county where officials keep dying in freak accidents...

Driven by her ideal of clearing wrongful convictions and bringing justice to all, she navigates the many factions of Ming-era Zhejiang.

From the imperial court to the far reaches of the martial world, she joins a woman in solving cases and clearing the wrongfully accused, witnessing both Jiangnan's scenery and the historical figures recorded in the annals of the Zhengtong era.

Theme: A historical crime investigation drama.