Wei Shang is the youngest supervisory censor of the Great Jing Dynasty, and the only person in the world with the ability to "stop time" - when he touches evidence of crime, time stops, and the truth cannot be hidden.
On the wedding day, he lifted the bride's hijab. When the barrier was out of control, Qin Wanyin's sentence appeared above his head: "Killing father and husband, a treason order, and will be executed in three days."
Three days later, she smiled silently at him at the execution ground. Later he learned that the last words she left in the cell were: See you in the next life.
The emperor privately admitted that she had been wronged, and then said: "The late emperor's decree ends here."
He didn't stop.
Following his wife's list hidden in the mezzanine of the marriage bed, he discovered that every corrupt official he caught was a sacrifice arranged by the system; his ability to stop time was a sign of being selected as a "vessel"; his father's death was a selection test designed for him by the late emperor.
His entire life has been a lie.
But there was one person who stood by his side from beginning to end - Xu Shuyue, the last descendant of the metaphysics family, who could see people's "official luck". The first true thing she said to him was: "Your official luck is black, and its roots are directly connected to the imperial mausoleum."
From the breaking of a red rope to the recasting of a red rope. From the human world to eternal night.
A skinning trial, in which the court takes advantage of the wronged souls. The promise of the red rope is tied from the execution ground to the next life.
