On a rainy night in Jiangzhou, beneath the neon lights, an anonymous letter disrupted Lin Shen's peaceful life. In a faded photograph, his fiancée Su Tang, missing for five years, wore a ginkgo-leaf necklace and smiled faintly in front of a jade lotus lamp. To uncover the truth, Lin Shen entered a turbulent auction and bought the lamp for the astronomical sum of eight million. He had no idea he had become entangled in a bloody conspiracy spanning twenty years.
The jade lamp cracked, and the air filled with the stench of blood. Under forensic pathologist Shen Nanzhi's scalpel, the curled-up corpse of Su Tang was cut out. As the investigation continued, cultural relic smuggling, black-market dealings, and cold cases began to surface like venomous snakes. Behind the ferocious grin of Zhou Zhenhai, the owner of the Treasure Pavilion, lay the truth about the murder of Su Tang's mother. In an abandoned warehouse, dozens of bodies sealed inside jade carvings told of the despair of those who had resisted.
When the black muzzle of a shotgun pointed at Lin Shen, Shen Nanzhi arrived with the police just in time, seemingly bringing the crimes to an end. Yet the mysterious force left undiscovered in the ledger, and Shen Nanzhi's complicated expression as she struggled to speak, suggested that this bloody mystery was far from over. The jade's eerie glow still flickered in the darkness, and new clues awaited discovery…
