I, Jiang Ning, the youngest widower in the Dayin Dynasty, can hear the dead speak.
But this time, I'd rather be deaf.
The golden thread of the dragon robe is hidden in the nails of the eldest princess. The Minister of Punishment pinned me down on the autopsy table and forced me to change my confession.
I cut open his son's body with my backhand, held up the fragment of jade pendant in his stomach and sneered: "Sir, my son swallowed the evidence of regicide for you."
The candle light flickered, and the eunuch's sharp message came from outside the door:
"The Emperor has arrived——"
A corpse, two lives, and the bloody secrets on the golden thread of the dragon are revealed.
Just when I thought I had caught the real culprit, Concubine Duan handed me a copy of "Compendium of Herbal Medicine" late at night. The page of the book was quietly dog-eared on the page "Blue Sea and Orchid"...
The owner of the dragon robe was sitting on the dragon chair, watching me overturn his chessboard with my own hands.
