醉醒石

In the bustling capital of Nanjing, a modest clerk named Yao Yixiang arrives with little more than a handful of silver and a promise to his widowed mother. He trades the excitement of the city’s riverside haunts for a low‑ranking post in the local prison, where his instinct to treat the incarcerated with compassion immediately sets him at odds with the usual harshness of the bureau.

Yao quickly discovers that the inmates are caught in a tangle of false accusations and petty corruption. He begins quietly investigating each case, offering aid to those most in need while resisting the temptations of bribes and the pressure to look the part of a typical official. His quiet integrity draws both admiration and suspicion, hinting at a wider struggle between personal virtue and the entrenched injustices of the Ming legal system.