The Law's Backdoor

Inspired by the Qin dynasty case of Mao falsely accusing Jiang of cattle theft, this historical suspense novel follows two families severed by the newly built border wall. A hidden tunnel sustains their forbidden survival trade, but when a malicious accusation of ox theft triggers the brutal law of retaliatory punishment, a young man discovers that the legal loophole enabling the tunnel was deliberately carved by the powerful. Ning Hangyi-style psychological twists reveal that some flaws in the law are not defects, but secret passages for authority.