Paper Effigy Revenge: From Fallen Scholar to Absolute Power

Shen Yan opens his eyes to find himself the most miserable down-and-out scholar in the capital of Dayao: his father died on the road to exile, his mother has been secretly fed arsenic for half a year, and he himself has been framed with the charge of "paper effigy murder," tied up in the City God Temple awaiting death. Fortunately, in his past life he was a technician at the municipal bureau's physical evidence center. No mud on the paper effigy's shoes? The bamboo frame freshly whittled? The corpse's nails clean, the facial wounds showing no vital reaction? He exposes the ghost-faking trick in public and earns a three-day deadline to solve the case. Starting with the disappearance of the Lu family bride, he performs autopsies, audits accounts, and reopens old cases, discovering that his father's death, three thousand shi of military grain, and a single salt license all point to the same person hidden deep in the court. And the empress on the dragon throne is listening through a screen as he peels back layer after layer of the court's lies. Others kill with blades; he kills with evidence. From a down-and-out scholar to the registrar of the Court of Judicial Review, from the capital to the eight corners of the world, he will make all the dead speak. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Paper Effigy Revenge: From Fallen Scholar to Absolute Power — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠