The Iron Verdict

In the Spring and Autumn State of Jin, a prodigy judge named Li Li crafts a flawless legal doctrine he believes is divine logic itself. To prove its unassailable perfection, he secretly engineers an experimental murder—framing an innocent man and executing him through his own rules. Elevated by power and haunted by the ghost of his conscience, Li Li spends his remaining days suspended between the cold elegance of legal reason and the slow flaying of his soul, only to discover that law, in the end, is not the voice of justice but the coldest footnote of authority.