During the Chunxi period of the Southern Song Dynasty, a strange case occurred in the academy outside Lin'an City.
Two students were found dead in a closed bedroom. The doors and windows were bolted from the inside, and there were no signs of intrusion. The county lieutenant hurriedly closed the case with "suicide by appointment". The two suicide notes were brilliant in writing and the cause of death seemed conclusive.
However, academy student Guo Zhixing discovered something that shouldn't be there at the crime scene - two red salt lychees. Only a few families in Lin'an City can make this kind of lychee pickled with a secret method, and his family is one of them.
Guo Zhixing is a natural businessman. It is his instinct to observe people's emotions and careful calculation is his strength. He could have pretended not to see anything, but those two lychees were like pebbles thrown into the water, causing ripples in his peaceful life. At this moment, Gu Jingshu, the head of Qinghe County who was born in a clan, came to the door. She went through the closing documents and found that the writing of the suicide note was far beyond the usual skills of the deceased, the theory of the secret room was full of loopholes, and the existence of two lychees pointed to an old Jingkang case that had been sealed for twenty years.
A businessman's son who grew up in the city, an out-of-place clan daughter, plus a doctor, an escort, a cook - a group of people who should not be present at the murder scene, formed the most unlikely detective team in Lin'an City. The process of them clearing up the fog is also the process of Guo Zhixing re-recognizing his family. Some secrets are buried not because they are insignificant, but because the truth is too heavy.
Life is like a dream, bones are speechless. And they are the ones who speak for the bones.
