The corpse of an undertaker, devoured by mold, uncovers years of bloodshed buried deep within a porcelain kiln. Lin Yuan, the lowly daughter of an undertaker in Huyang County, has eyes that can hear the whispers of bones. Taking up her knife, she opens the coffin of her father, who died in an "accident." Bloodstained porcelain shards, the brittle bones of miners, secret palace sigils... The clues wind around the decade-old massacre of the Shangshu residence like poisonous vines. To uncover the truth, she joins forces with Lu Yuan, a sharp-minded investigator from the Ministry of Justice. From a remote county to the heart of the empire, she uses her craft as a blade, carving a path through bones and lies to strike at the demons entrenched at the summit of power. When her memories return, she learns that she was the only sacrificial offering to survive that blood feast.
