A bloody mystery, a love affair in troubled times that consumes all the conspiracy. Qin Sang, the daughter of a wealthy businessman in the capital, has an uninhibited nature and her medical skills can examine the bones of corpses, but she cannot detect the mysterious disappearance of her mother when she was still an infant.
Nie Junhuai, the young minister of Dali Temple, was a cold-faced Shura who cut down all the monsters with his sword, but he could not cut off the fire that burned all his colleagues at the border gate of the Western Region three years ago.
An unsolved case of "ghost mark demanding life" made the two people meet on a narrow road.
There is a corpse hanging on the beam in the secret room, and there are water marks on the ground but no footprints of the murderer. The tribute was mysteriously stolen, and only half of a gold leaf with a lotus pattern and blood on it remained in the box. When Haitang fell into a pool of blood beside Qin Sang's temples, Nie Junhuai's sword edge was picking open the lotus pattern jade pendant under her skirt - a totem that was exactly the same as the jade pendant of the dead warriors in the Western Regions, which was eye-catching.
He grabbed her wrist: "Who is Miss Qin?"
She put the silver needle against his throat with her backhand: "How much has Mr. Shaoqing hidden?"
The caravan in the Western Regions has hidden murderous intentions, and the secret medicine deep in the palace is implicated in old cases. When the conspiracy behind the serial murders points to the tragedy of "The Lotus Concubine Burning the Palace" twenty years ago, poisonous ivy crawls out of the ashes of the past. Qin Sang was forced to embark on the road to pursue the murderer with Nie Junhuai. They dissected the corpse in the lonely smoke in the desert, and captured the phantom in the night rain in Chang'an. She laughed and cursed and tore through his cold defense, but the spark in his eyes reflected the bloodiest answer to her life experience...
"If you and I are both pawns in the game, why not join forces to play chess?"
"Even if the road ahead is burning with karma, I will walk with you on the lotus."
