Lu Ming

Everyone in the court saw that Taifu Xie Kuquan was in power. Only Lu Zhibai, the clerk in the roster room, saw that the golden threads on his body were breaking one by one, and there was a black noose around his neck. To make matters worse, Lu Zhibai saw a capital crime on his list that he had never committed. Someone transferred his crime debts to him, gave him an official position, and nourished him, just waiting for the twelve-year plan to be printed and used to fill the accounts. In Dajing, official position was based on cultivation, and the roster could confer salary or take lives. In order to survive, Lu Zhibai could only trace the truth through the gaps between waste books, signatures and procedures, and climbed step by step from a clerk copying accounts to a position where he could decide the lives of others. But when he was finally qualified to change the account, he discovered that the "God-given salary" that the whole dynasty was fighting for had a lie that had lasted for two hundred years. And he is becoming the kind of person he hates the most.