Shen Zhaowei was abandoned at a Taoist temple as a child and was not brought back to the capital by the Yong'an Marquis's household until she was sixteen.
On the night she returned, she saw that the mourning banners in the residence had not been taken down and the funeral hall had not been cleared. Her own name was written on the spirit tablet.
The fake heiress wore her mother's old clothes, carried her life-jade, and enjoyed the destiny meant for her.
Everyone in the marquis's household expected her to accept her fate.
But no one knew that she kept a copy of the Bone-Reading Ledger in her palm, invisible to everyone else.
She could read a person's bones and recognize their sins.
Solve wrongful cases, earn merit.
Settle karmic debts, change a death sentence.
From the wronged spirit at the bottom of the marquis's household well, to the faceless bride case in the capital, and then the old case of a hundred babies whose lives were borrowed eighteen years ago, Shen Zhaowei gradually uncovers the truth: the capital's powerful have been stealing lives to prolong their luck.
They call her a harbinger of disaster and fear her to their bones.
But later, one by one, they kneel before her and beg her to change their fate.
Shen Zhaowei opens the Bone-Reading Ledger and says softly:
“Those who owe a life must repay their debt first.”
