His name is Shen Ming, and he is a restorer of ancient books. He works with yellowed criminal law books every day.
No one knows that there is a secret hidden in his palm - the Heavenly Punishment System, which seals the punishments of the past three thousand years from Xia and Shang to Ming and Qing Dynasties. Burning, lingchi, beheading, crucifixion... Every torture is waiting for a "suitable" criminal.
His sword is only aimed at those who cannot be controlled by the law: entrepreneurs who rape and murder, telecom bosses who defraud orphans, human traffickers who abduct children, and officials who embezzle disaster relief funds. When the judiciary lets them go due to "insufficient evidence," Silence will take action in the middle of the night - executing them in ancient ways, asking the criminals to confess the burial location themselves, and then die in pain.
For the first time, he was so nervous that his hands shook and he left a hair on the scene.
The second time, he began to enjoy the feeling of control and ate a bowl of beef noodles.
The third time, he returned to the scene after the execution and passed by the police.
The fourth time, he was overconfident, his target escaped, and his identity was exposed to the entire Internet.
Overnight, he became the focus of division among the people: half of the people called him a murderer, and the other half called him a hero. The police pursued him with all their strength, and the imitators used his name to kill innocent people indiscriminately. He continued the execution while on the run, but found that he was losing his perception of pain - the knife was cutting away his humanity inch by inch.
Finally, he chose to surrender.
On the day of the trial, two groups of people confronted each other outside the court. He was sentenced to life in prison and thought that was the end of it.
Until his mother died of illness, he found a suicide note in the casket, revealing a secret that had been hidden for seventeen years -
The woman he never knew
