[Fast-paced crime solving + reasoning + brainy + suspense]
"The Record of Clearing Wrongs" is a mystery of ups and downs in half a lifetime.
Shen Yan, a scholar from a poor family who failed in the imperial examination, wanted to be an ordinary clerk in Suzhou County Government, but was involved in a murder case in a secret room on a rainy night - three scholars died tragically and mysteriously. The "poetry note" left at the scene pointed to the abandoned Thousand Poems Tower on the outskirts of the city, and was implicated in an old imperial examination fraud case ten years ago.
He used family autopsy skills to see through the illusion of "ghosts seeking life", but he didn't know that this was just the tip of the iceberg: Gu Linzhou, the young minister of Dali Temple who was investigated incognito, hid the secret of overturning his father's case. The special ink on the poem paper was secretly linked to the mysterious organization "Tianshu" in Beijing. Among the old things left by his father, a token with strange patterns was quietly revealing the shocking secret of his life experience.
From the serial murders in the Jiangnan water town, to the old cases of the princes in the palace of the capital; from the theft of military rations on the border battlefield, to the murder of Jiangnan salt merchants, Shen Yan and Gu Linzhou went from suspicion to joining forces, pursuing the murderer in layers of fog. When the shadow of "Tianshu" shrouded the imperial power, and when the regicide conspiracy was at stake at the palace banquet, Shen Yan finally understood: the so-called truth was never just about who the murderer was, but also a century-old secret that spanned the government and the public, and his own inescapable fate.
The tip of the pen examines the murder case, and the bottom of the inkstone hides the wind and frost. This life-focused pursuit of the murderer will eventually reveal the most poignant answer behind all the sacrifices and betrayals.
