Luoyang, the sacred capital, has an undercurrent under its prosperity.
The famous tribute tea in the capital contained forged salt, and huge amounts of stolen silver flowed into secret channels; the painter of the Celadon Pavilion died mysteriously, and a mysterious "red blood stone" was implicated behind the Buddha statue; on the eve of the imperial examination, the son of the Minister of Rites was attacked and fell into coma, and miniature "cheating" wood chips that surpassed the craftsmanship were discovered on the scene...
The blood lines of three seemingly independent major cases gradually intersect in the hands of Su Lingwan, a female promoter who studied under Di Gong and is proficient in uncanny skills but has a deep fear of blades. She peeled off the cocoon and gained insight into the huge Meng family smuggling network behind the tribute tea case, revealing the blood, tears, bones and fatal flow of the "Red Blood Stone" mine. She also glimpsed a dark force that could shake the court from the subtle frame-up of the imperial examination case - codenamed "Lian Xiang".
Going deep into the source of the "red blood stone" - the death place of Yingzui Cliff on Jiannan Road, Su Lingwan and Pei Jingxuan led three hundred dead soldiers to launch a desperate attack. At the core of the mine, Su Lingwan faced the poisonous dagger that awakened her childhood nightmare when facing the true form of the "Lotus Prime" who controlled the empire's cancer - the unparalleled and noble An Guogong Li Xuanyin.
A critical moment! The fear of the past almost swallowed her up, but Duke Dee's motto, "The law is like iron! Justice is like the sky!" Resounded through her heart like thunder, and the screams of countless dead souls such as Zhou Yuan's blood letter, the miners' bones, and the sacrifices of their colleagues turned into the power to break the cocoon. She overcame her inner demons, accurately captured and countered the killing move, and combined with Pei Jingxuan's thunderous strike, she finally killed the bloody "Lotus Prime" who occupied the pinnacle of the empire.
