When Can This Official Finally Get Out?

Li Yan unexpectedly transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty, in the fortieth year of the Jiajing reign. He became a down-and-out scholar who had failed the imperial examinations for years, squandered his family fortune, and hanged himself at home. After arriving in this world, Li Yan had to fall back on the skills from his previous life and make a living gathering medicinal herbs in the mountains. Then one day, he came across several people who had been killed by bandits. Beside them, he found official credentials and an imperial appointment document. They were the credentials and appointment of a county magistrate! Looking at the documents in his hands, a conflicted look flashed across Li Yan's eyes. With them, he could take up the post and become the local magistrate! But impersonating an imperial official was a capital crime. If exposed, he would inevitably end up at the execution ground! He looked at the credentials and appointment in his hands, then at the medicinal herbs at his feet. A resolute glint flashed in his eyes. Rather than live an ordinary life, he might as well risk everything! But now that he had stepped into this quagmire, who knew when he would ever make it out?