Cast aside by the entire System, she makes silence her blade and cuts open twenty buried cold cases. Though the whole System despises Shen Zhao, her instincts and blood-written notes let her pry open even the most seemingly unsolvable deaths. Pei Yan, a former forensic doctor, secretly passes her the knife; reporter Lin Xiu sets off a media storm; Bai Wu, a psychiatric patient, sees visions of deaths yet to come; even prison kingpin Chen Jin becomes a pawn in her game. No one believes her, yet every reopened case points to the same web of darkness, and she is becoming the one knot that web cannot untangle.
