If This Happened in Ancient Times

When speaking up for justice becomes a death sentence, a flash of silver hidden in a sleeve conceals a bone-chilling threat!

Guo Chengjing, a scholar from Bianjing, steps in when he sees injustice, only to fall into a deadly trap involving forged salt permits. A death warrant is carved in blood on his prison walls. His childhood sweetheart, Tang Zhixia, enters the trap alone, and ink stains on the dye vats tear open a shocking conspiracy. The character “Cao” on the government silver slithers like a venomous snake; eerie figures haunt the official kilns and dye vats. Beneath layer upon layer of forged evidence lies a man-eating giant lurking at the heart of the grain transport network! She flees for her life with the evidence in hand; he shields her with his own body, blood staining the riverbank. A deadly game that spans both the imperial court and the martial world, and two true hearts battered by murky waves. See how a poor scholar uses his wits to break the deadlock, and how an orphan girl finds the courage to set the heavens ablaze! Humanity is tempered in the crucible of desperation, and the truth thunders beneath irrefutable evidence. If this injustice had happened in ancient times, it would have been a thunderclap that toppled the throne!