After a serious illness, Su Yunqi, the legitimate daughter of the Chancellor's household, found a book called The Book of All Life in her mind. It foretold that, three months later, during the Lantern Festival, she would poison her younger sister, Su Luoluo, out of jealousy, and her childhood sweetheart and fiancé would personally oversee her execution.
Unwilling to become a stepping stone in someone else's story, she decided to rewrite her fate by force. Using the book's ability to predict the future, she delved into a series of bizarre murders in the capital, where written characters came to life and killed people. She discovered that the world was being corrupted by a strange force known as Ink Blight.
Then she met the one variable absent from the book: Xiao Huaijin, the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review. He could read people's hearts, yet somehow could never see through her. As they solved one eerie case after another, involving horrors steeped in Chinese folklore, such as a wedding gown made of human skin and a faceless opera performer, they gradually uncovered the enormous lie behind the world: everyone was merely a diversion penned by high-ranking gods.
