Shen Yanqing, the Minister of Household Affairs, was in dire straits due to an urgent river engineering problem. Political enemies colluded with the inner court and set a fatal trap on the grade of silk on which the document was framed. When the two-colored silk silk, symbolizing "transgression", was presented in front of the emperor, a silent massacre using palace regulations suddenly came. Shen Yanqing must find a way to survive in danger for himself and for thousands of people working on the river, in the gap between imperial power and conspiracy.