What she sang was a play, what she saw was blood, and what she broke was people's hearts.
Liu Menglan has two faces:
On the stage, she is the most beautiful actress in the capital, with her sleeves fluttering, singing the love of life and death in "The Peony Pavilion";
In the audience, she is the only "person in the mirror" who can see the last moments of the deceased.
When the daughter of a minister drowned, she reached an emotional point in her song, and actually "saw" the murderer push the man into the lake - the jade pendant on the murderer's waist was exactly the same as the one worn by the fifth prince today!
The theater troupe is on the verge of closure. If the truth is told, thirty-eight people will disappear overnight; if kept silent, one's conscience will be tortured day and night.
Until that night backstage, when her mouth and nose were covered and she was dragged into the darkness, a mysterious man whispered into her ear:
"Your ability shouldn't just be used for singing."
"From today on, every time you sing a play, you will solve a case."
"If you sing well, the troupe will survive; if you sing poorly..."
[Intangible cultural heritage of opera × suspenseful investigation × court intrigues]
When "The Peony Pavilion", "Dou E's Injustice" and "Farewell My Concubine" all become passwords at the murder scene,
With a golden voice, she sang out the darkest secrets of the entire dynasty.