"Even if I die, my bones will still bring down that judge's gavel and set right and wrong straight."
The small, remote county of Daomei is unexpectedly full of hidden talents. The county magistrate is a good-hearted man, but has an unyielding backbone; the unofficial coroner knows the chief judicial commissioner; the innkeeper, married twice, is not only wealthy but also the most devoted of hearts; the quick-handed constable, raised in the army, takes up gardening as soon as he arrives; and the female strategist, who willingly disfigured herself, has a mysterious identity. Daomei County has secrets, but no one speaks of them openly. Then a wanderer from the martial world arrives and shatters the county's strange balance...