Prisoned Top Scholar

Prisoned Top Scholar Plot:

On the day Shen Zhaozhang, the top scholar of the imperial exam, was proclaimed, he was framed by political enemies and thrown into prison, charged with "colluding with enemies and plotting rebellion"—a death sentence that sent him from glory to ruin. For three years, he hid his identity in the dungeon, learning arcane arithmetic and the dark secrets of officialdom from the prisonmates' books. When he was released, the capital was in chaos over the Ministry of Revenue's corruption case—Shen Zhaozhang, clutching the handwritten notes he'd filled in prison, cracked the case with his "deathly accurate accounting" skills and stunned the emperor with his "Strategy for Peace". The once-down-and-out prisoner became the most sought-after "divine calculator" in the capital—yet as he slowly uncovered the truth of his wrongful conviction, he discovered that the one who framed him was the confidant he had once sworn brotherhood with...