I am Shen Zhiwei, a blind carpenter.
Others cannot see me, but with the help of wood, I can uncover the secrets of every dead person.
Three years ago, the Shen family was executed to the last member. My mother traded seven knife wounds for my life.
Three years later, I live quietly among the common folk. The moment my fingertips touch burl wood, the truth plays back before me.
The spoiled heir of the Marquis of Dingbei blocks my door. “Are you the Shen family’s surviving orphan?”
I lower my eyes and smile faintly. “You have the wrong person, sir.”
The next second, I press my fingers to the tabletop and replay, before everyone, the scene of him nervously covering up a murder!
The Imperial Tutor pretends to be incorruptible? I touch his official’s desk and replay the evidence of his embezzlement.
The real culprit has been hiding for twenty years? I touch every piece of wood in the capital and hunt him down to his death!
They bully me for being blind, for being an orphan girl, and because the Shen family was destroyed.
But they don’t know
My eyes are blind, but my heart is not. My hands are weak, but wood has a spirit.
From this day on, I will use burl wood as my eyes and hatred as my blade. A blood debt must be repaid in blood!
Because wood never lies, but people
All do.
