[Women passing the baton, realistic suspense, women fighting back, speaking up for the innocent] *On the day of her sister’s funeral, everyone was smiling.
The renowned twenty-nine-year-old author “Evening Breeze” suddenly died of a heart attack. Her husband inherited her lucrative copyrights, and her parents received a generous payout. Xiao Xing, her younger sister and a lawyer, watches the absurd funeral with cold detachment. But as she’s leaving, she overhears her brother-in-law murmuring to his mistress: “That ungrateful woman is finally taken care of.”
A month later, Xiao Xing receives a Valentine’s Day gift from her sister: a battered teddy bear they used to fight over as children. Hidden inside its belly is a note: “Don’t trust anyone, especially your brother-in-law.”
And her sister’s urn lies quietly in a columbarium niche her whole family considers a “disgrace.” Until Xiao Xing smashes it open and discovers there are no ashes inside at all.
*When the truth becomes taboo, writing is the original sin.
The bestselling author “Evening Breeze” dies a mysterious, sudden death. Her husband takes full control of her copyrights, and the screen adaptation becomes a sensation across the internet. Her younger sister, Xiao Xing, is a legal counsel struggling to get by in a big city. At her sister’s funeral, she sees through everyone’s act. She thinks it’s just another tragedy caused by a family that favors sons over daughters, until she finds irrefutable evidence at her sister’s burial niche, evidence that could bring down the entire prefecture-level city.
This is a trap laid with death. Her sister used herself as bait and her ashes as a lock, sealing away every shady deal, every falsified mine-disaster report, and every whistleblower who vanished from the system, all within the urn niche everyone regarded as a place of “utter oblivion.”
The key to opening it is the day the sisters feared most in their childhood.
