The Imperial Coroner

Besides, Prefect Liu has already returned.

is no longer for Chief Clerk Han alone to decide.

Prefect Liu has the final word.

This is Prefect Liu's wife,

This is the Commandery Prince An,

Liu Shijiang is missing?

(yet the city garrison fails to muster any defense.)

(it's likely that Nanzhao's influence there runs far deeper than)

With Nanzhao troops pushing in, he was probably afraid of being held responsible,

so he slipped off quietly to hide somewhere.

he is, after all, the Prefect of Jiaozhou.

Could it be that Nanzhao got to him?

I've long heard that the Three Judicial Offices miss nothing

I just don't fully trust Han Ji

How did this happen?

Liu Shijiang's death is too strange.

But if he simply fell onto

if someone were walking and accidentally fell,

they'd instinctively try to break their fall with their arms or legs,

it was as if he dropped straight down from the sky,

and unless a new king is crowned,

So-called prophecies and divine oracles

have popped up throughout history.

They're nothing but tricks dressed up in mystery.