In the twenty-seventh year of the Yong'an Dynasty in the Dayin Dynasty, weird things happened frequently in Kyoto: the embroiderer in the embroidery workshop was strangled with silk thread late at night, and died like a puppet; the shopkeeper of the silk and satin shop drowned in a secret room, but there was not a drop of water around him; some children claimed that women in red were often seen on the streets at midnight carrying bone china lamps. When the shadow of the lamp swayed, the sound of the deceased grinding his teeth could be heard...
Shen Yanqiu, the young minister of Dali Temple, was born into a noble family but has a cold temperament. He is proficient in autopsy and criminal law. He does not believe in ghosts and gods, but only believes in evidence. However, he repeatedly encounters obstacles when tracking down serial murders - all clues point to the long-abandoned "bone china kiln", and the legend in the kiln is closely related to a massacre of a family twenty years ago.
At the same time, Su Wan, a blind girl from the "Wenling Pavilion" in the south of the city, can hear the whispers of the dead and makes a living by helping people find objects and defending grievances. The ancestral bone china lamp in her hand would light up on its own whenever a murder occurred. The afterimages that appeared in the lamp actually corresponded to the suspicious points discovered by Shen Yanqiu.
One is a court official who believes in legal principles, and the other is a folk stranger who is familiar with supernatural phenomena. The two people, who have no intersection at all, are forced to go together because of a series of strange and murderous cases. When the truth illuminated by the bone china lamp gradually emerged, they discovered that behind the resentment of the deceased was the bloody shadow of the struggle for imperial power, and their own fate had already been involved in this chess game that spanned life and death...
