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I Served as a County Magistrate for Three Years and Shocked the Empress

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Three years ago, Lin Zhao was demoted to the poor, remote Qing'an County for offending powerful officials. To survive, he pretended to be a "lazy, useless magistrate," but secretly investigated the unjust case involving the Empress's younger brother, built water conservancy projects, and brought in trade routes to lift Qing'an out of poverty. When the Empress passed through Qing'an on her military campaign, she was stunned to find the former "good-for-nothing" had turned the poor county into the "No.1 County Under Heaven"—and had ironclad evidence of the old case. He never gave up; he just hid his devotion behind "mediocrity," guarding her world in the slowest, most sincere way. Staring at the dusty man with fiery eyes, the Empress finally understood: those three years of "wasting time" were his deepest promise to her.

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