Blood-Red Plum Blossoms

In a hospital delivery room, two cries ring out on the very same day: Lin Xue and her mother have both given birth to baby girls! Even more astonishingly, both newborns have an identical red, plum-blossom-shaped birthmark on the sole of the right foot, in precisely the same place and of precisely the same size, as if they had been copied and pasted. The nurse holds the babies up and compares them again and again. Even the most experienced doctor exclaims, “I’ve been in this profession for thirty years and never seen a coincidence this exact!” The family is swept up in their double joy, unaware that this bizarre birthmark is about to expose a shocking secret that will overturn the moral order of one of the most powerful families in the country...