Thirty years ago, there was a secret swallowed by darkness hidden by the Magnolia River in Qinglan Town. In pursuit of the so-called "perfect bone china", bone china craftsman Lu Mingyuan mixed special raw materials with the ashes of living people to create artifacts with strange spiral patterns. People who tried to uncover the truth, such as Shen Qinglan and reporter Chen Yan, disappeared one after another, and were eventually buried by crimes disguised as accidents.
Thirty years later, Su Wan, the daughter of Shen Qinglan's best friend, returned to her old home to fulfill her mother's last wish. A string of broken bone china wind chimes hanging under the magnolia tree became the only clue - lingering resentment seemed to be condensed in the spiral patterns of the wind chimes. As the investigation deepens, the cryptic testimonies of traders in neighboring towns, the black powder in abandoned warehouses, and the strange records of "special raw materials" in the ledgers gradually piece together the bloody outline of that year.
When Su Wan found the bloody semi-finished bone china in the warehouse, a pursuit in the dark suddenly came. Bone china fragments, rusty iron chains, secret diaries... As the police intervened, the dust-laden incriminating evidence was awakened one by one.
Magnolia flowers bloom and fall, and the repaired wind chimes are swaying on the branches again. Those names buried by sin finally found rest in justice; and the warmth and beauty that bone china should have carried began to be passed down again over the years. The sound of this string of wind chimes is not only a consolation for the past, but also an insistence on the light - the truth may be late, but it is never absent.
