In the Yong Dynasty in the twenty-seventh year of Yongchang, the light of Zishi became a life-threatening charm. Wherever the oil lamp was extinguished for no reason, someone would always turn into a charred corpse, with half a burning lotus burned on the throat. Lu Zhaoming, the ninth-grade supervisory censor, is actually the soul of a modern forensic doctor. He discovered that all this was related to the imperial heir transfer case twenty years ago.
During the day, he was an unknown little official in the court, watching Pei Ji, the new top scholar, decide life and death with his pen; at night, he and the mute Bai Jinghong broke into the mysterious ghost market and discovered that Bai Jinghong's embroidery needles could predict the future. When the Ministry of Industry's Zhenguo Bell oozed black blood, and the Qintian Prison's observatory was covered with corpses, Lu Zhaoming finally understood that this was a conspiracy that spanned a thousand years, and there was a shocking secret hidden behind it.
