Pei Zhao's Case Files

While investigating the sudden death of Shen Wanjin, the wealthiest man in the land, Deputy Minister of the Court of Judicial Review Pei Zhao encounters the mysterious Su Zhi and discovers that the case is connected to the massacre of an imperial physician’s family twenty years earlier. As they follow the clues, they are hunted by the mysterious Moonshadow Alliance and uncover a shocking plot by Right Chancellor Yan Song to collude with the enemy and betray the country. When a poisoning breaks out during the grand ancestral temple ceremony, Su Zhi takes a deadly dose of poison to save Pei Zhao. The emergence of half a Blood Moon Token also brings to light the secrets of the Grand Princess. With the Wala army at the borders, Pei Zhao must decipher the code “Moonlight on the Golden Saddle” and find the last hope of saving the dynasty amid a web of identities and lies.