Zhuang Yuheng held back his sobs and crawled forward on his knees.
Empress Dowager Zhuang clutched a handkerchief and punched his shoulder with a fist.
She punched again and again, her eyes red, throat swelling with pain: "You just came back... you just came back..."
...
In May, Xiao Hen handled a particularly egregious bribery case, involving half of the Hanlin Academy.
Although clear waters have no fish, there must be limits to everything. Involving more than half the officials of the Hanlin Academy is an extremely alarming matter.
When the results of the investigation were revealed, Xiao Hen never expected that the mastermind behind it would be the current Hanlin Academy scholar.
Inside the prison cell.
The Hanlin Academy scholar confessed his crimes without any dispute.
He accepted bribes, manipulated the bureaucrats' exams, admitted those with low scores into Hanlin, and falsified their credentials and achievements to facilitate their entry into the six ministries.
