In prosperous Chang’an during the High Tang, danger lurks beneath the city’s splendor.
Female forensic examiner Ran Yan is drawn into a strange case involving the death of a noblewoman and forced to join forces with Xiao Song, a junior official at the Court of Judicial Review. She is skilled at examining corpses and can read the truth from the dead. He excels at unraveling tangled clues and seeking justice amid the whirlpool of political intrigue. Each has their own reasons: she is investigating the truth behind her mother’s death, while he is seeking to clear his father’s name.
But as the investigation deepens, the cases point to a mysterious organization called the Red Lotus Society, and every victim has secret ties to the imperial court. More unsettling still, all the evidence seems to implicate the Xiao family...
When trust meets betrayal and love collides with the truth, can the two of them see what is truly in their hearts amid conspiracies and schemes?
