In the winter of the third year of Qingli, a succession of red-clothed officials in Bianjing were stabbed to death by a brass abacus and their bodies were hung on the ice.
Next to each corpse, there is a warm black jade chess piece.
——"The murderer just left and was looking at us."
Shen Yanqing, who traveled through time and became the useless young minister of Dali Temple, was forced to take over the "three days to solve the case" death order. With his incomplete [Junjing Eye], he could only see glimmers of clues, but could not see the whole truth.
And when he opened the files from three years ago, a name sent a chill down his spine:
Gu Hanzhou.
The former No. 1 Detective of Dali Temple whose family was ruined due to "malfeasance in duty" and who should have died on the road to exile.
Now, he's back.
With a bloody chess game, nine blood-stained abacus, and a lynching trial against the entire Bianjing elite.
"Shen Yanqing," the voice in the darkness chuckled, exactly the same as his reasoning method, "Guess where the next child will land?"
