My Name Is Absent from the Verdict

During the Chengning era of the Great Heng dynasty, heads of government offices hired their own clerks. These clerks were not listed in official registers and could not sign their names, yet the “Provisions on Case Administration” in the Heng Code plainly stated: When a case goes wrong, the clerk in charge is responsible. Lu Jian, an unregistered clerk, must use the law and procedures themselves to push back, time and again, the blame directed at him and place it on those who truly bear responsibility. No transmigration, no System, no supernatural elements.