The intractability and complexity of corruption determine that the anti-corruption struggle is a long-term and arduous endeavor. The integrated advancement of the three anti-corruption mechanisms (dare not, cannot, have no desire for corruption) has elevated the systemic, holistic, and synergistic nature of the anti-corruption campaign to a new strategic height. Among these, “unwillingness to engage in corruption” points to the highest realm of corruption governance, in which the rule of law plays a significant role in driving the generation of the endogenous impetus for “unwillingness to engage in corruption”. The rule of law driving “unwillingness to engage in corruption” is, in essence, a process of internalizing external objective normative systems into individual subjective moral self-discipline and value identification, involving a complex psychological construction of cognition, emotion, volition, and behavior. Through its systematic and stable institutional force, the rule of law continuously shapes individuals’ cognition, emotion, and value judgments regarding corruption, thereby driving the formation of subjective self-consciousness of “unwillingness to engage in corruption”. This process manifests a logical chain from “objective rule-of-law shaping” to “subjective cognitive internalization” and then to “generation of subjective self-consciousness”. Based on the strategic deployment of “combating corruption with rule-of-law thinking and rule-of-law methods”, it is necessary to systematically construct practical pathways for the rule of law to drive the endogenous impetus for “unwillingness to engage in corruption” from such dimensions as deepening the integration of discipline and legal education with value recognition, achieving a balanced synergy between institutional constraints and value incentives, integrating the collaborative governance system of the three anti-corruption mechanisms, and promoting the value balance between “digital supervision” and “humanistic governance”.