The Palace Puppet and I, the Phantom Thief, Solve a Cold Case

Su Ningzhi, the capital’s foremost puppeteer, enters the palace with her mastery of thread-controlled puppetry, hoping to make puppets in peace. Instead, she stumbles upon the “ghost claiming lives” case in the Noble Consort’s chambers. The puppet fragment clenched in the victim’s hand is the only clue.

To clear her name, she uses miniature puppets to recreate the crime scene, only to catch the master thief Xie Yan sneaking in to investigate. One uses puppets to track clues, the other uses thievery to uncover evidence. Forced to team up, they begin investigating the case.

The Noble Consort is poisoned, a prince falls from his horse, the Crown Prince is framed… Every unsolved case hides a puppet mechanism. Xie Yan cracks the secrets, while Su Ningzhi traces their origins by following the strings, until they expose the mastermind through the tiniest clues.

When puppetry meets the skills of a master thief, the wrongful cases hidden within the palace are finally laid bare, one by one.