An ancestral bamboo awl, a century-old unsolved case, and a secret that generations had given their lives to protect.
Lin Mo was swept into a pursuit spanning a hundred years: fifty thousand taels of silver that vanished during the Guangxu era, a county magistrate who died suddenly, a family that changed its surname, and a mysterious man wearing a snake-shaped jade pendant.
He thought he was investigating the truth. Only later did he realize that the truth had been waiting for him all along.
