An ancestral bamboo screwdriver, an unsolved case from a hundred years ago, and a secret that generations of people have guarded with their lives.
Lin Mo was involved in a pursuit that spanned a hundred years - the 50,000 taels of silver that disappeared during the Guangxu period, the county magistrate who died suddenly, the family who changed their surname, and the mysterious man wearing a snake-shaped jade pendant.
He thought he was finding out the truth. Only later did he discover that the truth had been waiting for him.