The Imperial Inspector of Daxia

Lu Pingping had two regrets in his life. First, reaching out to grab a girl who jumped into the river on the cross-river bridge in Donghai City. Second, after being kicked off the bridge, he didn't drown. When he opened his eyes, he had become the legitimate eldest son of Lu Nanshan, the Minister of Rites in the Daxia Empire. Just after passing the martial arts assessment, he was kicked by his stepmother from the second branch to Dingnan County, a godforsaken place, to serve as the constable chief. Ranked seventh grade. The most valuable property in the county office was an oil lamp missing an ear, and a drinking buddy squatting in the jail awaiting execution. Guo Tianbao, the only son of the Guo family in Nanzhou, the apple of the eye of First-rank Martial Artist Guo Yan, bought a nominal ninth-grade martial artist title for three hundred taels of silver. He indulged in wine, women, wealth, and temper, yet he had an oddly good reputation among the common folk of Dingnan County. Three days ago, he woke up drunk lying next to a corpse. The deceased was Gu Xiaohong, the daughter of Physician Gu, with all her bones shattered, a gruesome death. Motive, time, and place all pointed to him, and the jail door was locked, waiting for his father Guo Yan to come from Nanzhou. With witnesses and evidence, the law would sentence him to death. But by popular sentiment—the commoners blocked the county office, holding banners reading "Justice for the Gu Family," lining up from the street corner to the West Market. The bluestone roads of Dingnan County were polished shiny, each pair of soles stepping on a righteous thought: a life for a life, no matter whose young master you are. — Description from novelcodex.org