Ideal in Shencheng

New prosecutor Li Xiang arrives in Shencheng with high ideals. On his first day at the procuratorate, he receives a joint petition from a mountain village. Twenty-seven villagers report suspicious contracting of the village's collective tea mountain. What seems like an ordinary livelihood dispute hides unknown secrets. Following his mentor Xu Zhendong, he ventures deep into Yunwu Town, the land of mountains, water, and tea, starting from a tampered test report. The abandoned tea mountain, villagers who hesitate to speak, an old accountant accidentally injured, and valuable tea appraisal documents... Clues piece together bit by bit, and the truth of illegal contracting, abnormal funds, and interest exchanges gradually surfaces, implicating a complex network entrenched locally for years. Before the tea mountain case is fully settled, an unexpected incident occurs in Yangjiang County. A tragedy triggered by a dinner party unexpectedly exposes a huge engineering project chaos, illegal mining of river resources, and a series of problems. A large web of interests woven by local personnel is torn apart layer by layer. With passion and a sense of duty, watch the young prosecutor proceed step by step, clear the fog, uphold fairness and justice, and restore a clear sky for the people! — Description from novelcodex.org