During the Night Trial at the Ancestral Hall, the Daughter-In-Law of the Hou Mansion Lit a Lamp to Collect Debts

Shen Zhaoheng was originally the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Jing'an. After her mother died early, she was sent to Zhuangzi by her stepmother. When she was brought back to Beijing ten years later, she was framed for killing her mother, harming her sister, and colluding with evil spirits. During the night trial at the ancestral hall, the clan elder wanted to expel her from the clan, and her stepmother forced her to marry the dying person on behalf of her concubine, but she actually wanted to use the marriage to silence her. On the verge of death, Shen Zhaoheng lit the bronze lamp left by his late mother. When the lights turned on, she saw people in the hall with different colors of karmic debts wrapped around them: some owed her mother a life, some secretly exchanged her life, and some had the soul of a dead child wrapped around their hands. She used the testimony of the dead soul in the lamp to break the situation on the spot and survived the knife of the Hou Mansion for the first time. Xie Xuandu, the young minister of Dali Temple, was ordered to investigate the "suspended murder case" in Beijing. He was extremely powerful and had a cold face, but Shen Zhaoheng saw that his life was about to be extinguished. Xie Xuandu did not believe in ghosts and gods, but found that the causal clues she told all pointed to the real case; Shen Zhaoheng also discovered that his life experience, the cause of his late mother's death, and the number of Xie Xuandu's deaths were all related to an old case in the Jingan Marquis Mansion sixteen years ago. One lights up lamps to collect debts, and the other enforces law and investigates cases. She borrowed his power, and he borrowed her eyes to investigate the secret case from the palace of the Marquis to the Dali Temple, and then to the depths of the imperial power. With each debt broken, the lights became brighter and the more memories she lost. Ultimately she must choose between collecting all her debts or saving herself.