Tales from Liaodong

Zong Jiyuan is a young woman accomplished in both the literary and martial arts. Determined to shoulder the responsibility of protecting her family, she was raised as a boy from childhood. But after she happens upon a murder, the case stirs something in her heart. Through a twist of fate, she enters government service in Liaodong County and steps into the yamen, only to become entangled in one baffling case after another.

As she witnesses the many faces of ordinary life and is stirred by a heroic sense of justice, a series of bittersweet emotions quietly awaken the girlish feelings she had long buried.

Will she keep hiding, or finally embrace who she is? What path will this extraordinary woman choose...?