One sentence from a five-year-old child revealed a bloody secret buried for many years.
“Uncle, you have a bite mark on your wrist.”
A few days later, three female corpses surfaced from a dry well, with scraps of blue candy wrappers caught beneath their fingernails.
One shocking murder after another rocked the capital.
The pawnbroker was found dead behind his counter, clutching a dark red jade pendant.
The Minister of Revenue died after swallowing gold, while secret accounts from the northern frontier were hidden in his cellar.
Twelve eunuchs mysteriously perished behind the rock garden.
Then, beneath a sky filled with black snow, a raging fire engulfed the imperial city.
Layers of fog obscured the truth, and the truth burned the heart.
Wen Zhuye and Yin Zhixue became ensnared in one conspiracy after another.
Who had personally brought that deadly bowl of sugar water?
And who was the murderer behind all these tragic cases?
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