That's Right, Your Honor

Also titled Like a Mirror, Floating Through the Waves. On hiatus for now, so don't add it to your favorites! Don't add it! Don't add it!

He Yun Jie had finally been selected for a judge position, but instead of the bright future she'd dreamed of, she got a hammer swung at her by one of the parties in a case.

When she awoke again, she had become Shen Ke, a judge in the Dali Court of the Yu Dynasty, who had disguised herself as a man to enter government service and was now behind bars.

She had definitely transmigrated.

In the morning, she was an upright judge; by evening, she was a prisoner behind iron bars. Before she could get her bearings, Xiao Jingtai, heir to the Prince of Youyun, had broken her out of prison and was passionately urging her to join him in opposing the corrupt and incompetent court.

“Wait,” Shen Ke interrupted Xiao Jingtai. “Let me first summarize the points of contention between you and the court. Then you can explain your position based on the facts and reasons you claim to support it.”

Xiao Jingtai: Huh?

After Xiao Jingtai later inherited the throne of the Yu Dynasty, he personally attended to even such small tasks as grinding ink and sweeping. Every spring, he worked in the fields alongside the farmers, and going to military drills and making incognito visits among the people became routine.

“Elder Sister says it's easy to take the throne, but hard to step down from it.” He wiped the sweat from his brow. “We must always stand alongside the people.”

An old general beside him, dressed like a farmer too, quietly reminded him, “Your Majesty, Chancellor Shen said that at work, we should address each other by our titles.”

At that moment, Shen Ke was in the courthouse, mediating between the plaintiff and defendant before trial. She sneezed. “Who’s thinking about me now?”

A brave, battle-hardened, naturally airheaded younger heir × a capable stateswoman who seems gentle but is secretly calculating, an older judge. An irreverent, deliberately absurd political intrigue story that doesn't take historical accuracy too seriously.

Theme: The law is the beginning of good governance.