Underneath the glitz, there are numerous mysteries; the fireworks in the market place hide murderous intent.
In the twelfth year of Shaoxing, Lin'an City.
Xuan Mo, who was once the penman of the Privy Council, offended the powerful, was demoted to the prosperous capital of the Southern Song Dynasty by a piece of paper, and became an eighth-level "right manager to join the army" - specializing in old cases and strange new crimes that no one wanted to touch. The writing desk has changed from the grand plans and policies of the Privy Council to the dusty murder case files in the government office; the pen and ink in the hand has changed from writing about world affairs to outlining the lines of life and death.
He originally thought that he would be trapped in documents and die for the rest of his life.
Until that morning filled with strange fragrance.
Dr. Guozijian died suddenly in the book engraving workshop. There was only a wisp of strange fragrance left next to the body and the mystery of the missing fragments of the legendary cursed "Mengxi Bi Tan". Xuan Mo glimpsed the first glimmer of dawn from the subtle differences in the formula of engraving ink. It was also this case that allowed him to meet two people who would never have walked together...
