During the reign of Dayong, under the prosperous times, mysterious crimes occurred frequently.
Exorcism of corpses in western Hunan, mass burials of ghost fires, ghost boats in the deep sea, steamed bones in the Golden Palace...
Everyone in the world believes that ghosts and gods are causing trouble and that divine punishment is coming.
Only Song Chen, a down-and-out widower who was demoted, knew:
All appearances are false.
Bodies will rot, but evidence will not; human hearts will lie, but dead people will not.
He held up a red oil umbrella and stood at the mass grave on a thunderstorm night, speaking for the dead and for the rights of the living.
However, when he cut through the layers of fog with a scalpel, he found that the most terrifying thing was not the evil ghosts, but the panic-stricken people who wanted to "live forever".
