Broken Mist

Dayong Dynasty, spring of the seventeenth year of Jinghe. Chang'an. Under the emperor's feet, there will be peace for a hundred and twenty years. It's peaceful on the surface, but there's an undercurrent surging underneath. "Tingyun San", a secret medicine that entered the folk market thirty years ago, has been woven into a large network from the rivers and lakes to the court after years of management - users become addicted and are willing to be manipulated. Over time, their liver and kidneys will be exhausted and they will die, with a smile on their faces when they die. The man behind this website calls himself "Mr." Three years ago in the winter, Shen Jie, the head of the Suji Department, led twelve spies to set up an ambush at Xingde Temple outside Zhuque Gate, intending to intercept the border defense map of Ting Yunsan's transactions with the enemy in the north. The news leaked out, and a fire broke out overnight. Shen Jie and twelve others were all killed in the line of duty. Afterwards, it was "proven" that Shen Jie was collaborating with the enemy, the Suji Department was purged, the entire Shen family was imprisoned, and the only daughter Shen Tingyun "immolated herself at home". The case has been finalized for three years, and no one dares to overturn it. Until the eighteenth day of the first month of the seventeenth year of Jinghe, a frozen corpse floated on the Yuhe River.