During the Chenghua reign of the Ming Dynasty, bizarre cases abound.
An ancient inkstone vanishes from a village schoolhouse's locked room, leaving a ghostly shadow on the windowsill. At the Jinan provincial examinations, a miniature carved ink stick conceals the secret to an exam fraud scheme. At a Mid-Autumn poetry gathering, a gifted scholar suddenly drops dead in front of everyone. Where did the poison come from?
A series of thefts at a relay station: the thief steals only the writing supplies of the exam candidates. In the examination compound, a candidate dies mysteriously in his cell in the middle of the night, and rumors spread of a "ghost claiming lives."
During the Hongzhi reign, the corpse of a famous Qinhuai courtesan floats in the river, with traces of imperial agarwood incense beneath her fingernails. Sacred Buddhist relics go missing from an ancient temple, and the words "Jianwen" are left at the scene: the Ming Dynasty's most sensitive scar. A "ghost ship" loaded with contraband salt sails the canal and sets itself ablaze when stopped for inspection, leaving no survivors... Behind every case lies an even deeper darkness.
Zhang Zilin is a master detective who solves cases through keen observation and meticulous logic. From the provinces to the capital, from criminal magistrate to imperial envoy, he spends his life seeking the truth.
But he soon discovers that solving a case is easy; solving the darkness is not.
When a case reaches the highest levels of power and his opponents are a vast web of vested interests spanning the imperial court, what will he have to sacrifice?
"There are no ghosts in this world. What is frightening is the human heart that pretends to conjure them."
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