In the spring of the tenth year of Yongning, a female body was fished out from the dry well in the back garden of Jinpinghou Mansion.
The deceased was the servant Sister Zhou who disappeared ten years ago. On the last night before her death, she knocked on the window of the small building in the backyard.
In that window, Xie Yun, the "crazy lady" of the Hou Mansion, was imprisoned for ten years without leaving the house. Everyone said she was crazy.
Shen Yanqing, the head of the Criminal Department, was ordered to investigate the case, but found that Sister Zhou's death led to an unjust case ten years ago. And that crazy lady, through the window, knows the secrets of everyone in the Hou Mansion——
Whose footsteps linger in the night, who has cried by the well, and who is lying.
She listened for ten years, waiting for someone who could hear her.
Until Shen Yanqing pushed open the door.
She asked, "My lord, can you hear me?"
——The echo from the bottom of the well, the blood letter from ten years ago, and the truth that dare not be spoken out in the boudoir are all waiting for an answer.
(I'm still practicing my writing, so you're welcome to give me some feedback. I'm thick-skinned and can handle it.)
