A corpse devoured by mold revealed years of bloodshed deep in the porcelain kiln. Lin Yuan, the daughter of a humble widower from Huyang County, used a pair of eyes that could understand the whispers of bones to cut open the coffin of her "accidentally" dead father. Bloody porcelain shards, miners' bones, palace secret talismans... Clues are like poisonous ivy entangled in the old case of the Shangshu Mansion that was wiped out ten years ago. In order to seek the truth, she formed an alliance with Shi Lu Yuan, an inspector of the Ministry of Punishment who had seven orifices. From a remote county to the heart of the empire, on the road paved with bones and lies, she used skill as an edge to pierce the demons and monsters entrenched at the top of power. When her memory revived, she realized that she was the only surviving sacrifice in that blood feast.
