In the third year of Yongchang's reign in Dajing, the criminal investigation tracer suddenly lost his soul and became the orphan of the guilty minister. He became Shen Yan, an idle clerk in Dali Temple who was left to die.
Everyone in the world laughs at him for being cowardly and incompetent, only knowing how to fish for a living. No one knows that inside this skin, there is a top soul proficient in modern criminal investigation.
The strange fate in the prison, the horror in the prison, and the bizarre murder cases that seemed to be caused by ghosts and gods were impossible to solve in the eyes of the ancients. The officials of the Manchu Dynasty could only conclude the case hastily with the theory of evil spirits.
But in Shen Yan's eyes, all the weirdness is man-made, and all the fog is hidden in the human heart.
He solved the case based on physical evidence and used profiling to analyze the heart. He broke away from the shackles of the ancient pedantic judgment of heavy confessions and belief in ghosts and gods. In the midst of laughter and salted fish, he crushed the mediocre officials of the government and the public, and solved layers of puzzles.
He originally just wanted to protect himself and live a stable life with a casual job, but unexpectedly, an old case revealed ten years of secrets, and family grievances, undercurrents between the government and the opposition, and a fateful chess game that spanned time and space all surfaced.
The city is foggy, the court is in turmoil, and all human obsessions hide evil motives.
He hides his edge in the world and watches the chess game leisurely. When the storm comes, let's see how the number one idler of Dali Temple can test his skills, tear through the illusions in the sky, keep his true heart, and overthrow the man behind the scenes.
Version 2 (contrast and refreshing style, catching readers' reading preferences)
Traveling to Dajing and becoming the bottom servant of Dali Temple, Shen Yan just wanted to lie down and fish, and be a jobber waiting to die.
However, God has no control, and bizarre murders occur one after another. Deaths are taken silently in prisons. Rumors spread everywhere in the government and the public. Everyone talks about innocent souls seeking their lives. It is difficult to prevent weirdness.
Ignorance in judging cases in the old days