In the thirteenth year of Yong'an, the whole Pei family died overnight at the hands of Hades. The young daughter Pei Yuncheng escaped by chance because she was sent to her maternal grandfather's house to recuperate.
Ten years later, Pei Yuncheng returned to Beijing as a medical doctor from Taiyuan Hospital. She used her medical practice as a cover to secretly trace the truth behind the Pei family's extermination, but she didn't know that she had already fallen into a carefully woven web.
The leader of the Underworld, Gu Changye, nicknamed the Living King of Hell, holds the life and death of everyone in the capital in his hands. He was cold, stern and dangerous, but he secretly took care of the children of the Salesian Home in the west of the city when no one was around. He gave her the antidote, but warned her not to investigate the Pei family's affairs, or she would die.
When Pei Yunzheng discovered that the Hades Palace token contained the secret symbol Pei, when she caught Gu Changye entering and exiting the palace late at night, and when the maid next to the queen showed murderous intent towards her - she finally realized:
The destruction of the Pei family was never the fault of Hades. The real murderer is above the court.
And the man who keeps telling her to stay away from the truth may be an enemy, or he may be the only fellow traveler who can lead her through this dark river of life and death.
She must make a choice - go into danger alone to pursue the murderer, or hold the hand that is also played by fate?
A dark river buries the truth;
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
