After three years of severe drought, the people smashed the Dragon King's temple, only to discover that the Dragon King living inside had no divine registry. He was an impostor.
Jiang Yu, a low-ranking clerk in charge of household registers, is ordered to inspect temples across the land.
If a temple has incense offerings but no divine registry, tear it down.
If a deity is registered but never answers prayers, reclaim the offerings.
If a temple enshrines three gods with the same name, bring them all back to the magistrate's office for verification.
Along the way, she investigates a fake Dragon King, interrogates the Child-Giving Goddess, and gets an unnamed ghost registered. She even adds Yan Chen, the commander of the Demon Suppression Bureau assigned to protect her, to her list of identities awaiting verification.
This man has an unknown identity, a suspicious past, and the names of 3,724 dead people weighing on him.
Yet he holds an umbrella for her, carries her on the road, and even lowers his head to steal a kiss while she checks the divine registry.
Jiang Yu covers her reddened lips and writes down a new entry:
“Yan Chen: For unlawfully getting close to an official of the imperial court, you are sentenced to remain by my side for life, subject to verification at any time.”
Later, when the assembled gods besiege the city and demand she hand over this ancient evil god who should have been executed long ago, Jiang Yu puts Yan Chen in chains in front of everyone, fastening the other end around her own wrist.
“Alive, I’ll put him on trial.”
“Dead, I’ll stand trial with him.”
Yan Chen looks down at the chain linking their wrists and asks with a soft laugh:
“Lord Jiang, is this an arrest, or a declaration of love?”
【Principled, protective female clerk × notorious fake loyal dog】
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Theme: Everyone deserves a name, and every deed deserves an accounting.
