After My Father Died at the Border, I Relied on the Imperial Examination to Return to the Court.

The year his father died at the border gate, he was accused of "selling grain and collaborating with the enemy." From then on, the Shen family became a criminal household that everyone in the Yuguan Guard could step on. Three years later, a fire in a granary brought the old case to light again, and this time, the person pushed out to take the blame was Shen Yan. If he presses his fingerprints before dawn, he will die; if he doesn't, his mother and sister will not survive. Everyone thought that a poor scholar from a military family had no other option but to accept his fate. But Shen Yan refused to recognize it. He checked the granary, looked through old accounts, followed a page of incomplete grain books, and dug out a black line that had been buried for three years: the vacancies in the ghost camp, the salt wash accounts, and the horse market transfers, all interconnected. My father did not die in an accident, but because he investigated someone he shouldn't have investigated. If you want to live, you have to reverse the verdict; if you want to reverse the verdict, you have to climb up. So he could only protect his mother and sister while taking advantage of the imperial examination to enter the court, fighting all the way from the death at the border fort to the powerful place in the capital. He wanted to avenge his father's injustice, and he also wanted to pull down one by one those who were stepping on the bones of the border soldiers to eat and drink. But when the truth got deeper and deeper, he discovered that what his father had encountered back then was not only the military ration case in the northern border, but also the Ministry of War, the Salt Class, and even the prince's seizure of the heir apparent. Those who killed his father were waiting for him at the highest point of the court.