One bang of the courtroom block strikes fear throughout Jiangnan!
Yang Naiwu: a name that stirred the seemingly peaceful officialdom of the late Qing and brought to light a miscarriage of justice that left everyone sighing in sorrow.
In the ninth year of the Xianfeng reign, a bizarre murder in Yuhang County, Hangzhou Prefecture, sent ripples spreading across the waters. In the end, it reached all the way to the imperial court and caused an enormous uproar.
In Yuhang, the successful candidate Yang Naiwu and the beautiful Xiaobaicai had each been living their own lives. But a cruel twist of fate swept them into a storm of bloody injustice.
Rumors flew like poisoned arrows, leaving them unable to defend themselves.
A corrupt, incompetent bureaucracy treated human lives as worthless and tortured confessions out of the innocent.
Yang Naiwu and Xiaobaicai struggled to survive in the darkness. Could they break free of this web? What corruption and tangled human relationships lay hidden behind it all?
Come explore this gripping, heartbreaking tale from history.
