On the first day after Shen Zhaowei was brought back to Yongninghou Mansion, before the marriage recognition ceremony was over, the ancestral temple sacrificial vessel suddenly rang.
The first one announced that after three months in the Hou Mansion, everyone would be executed; the second one announced that the first person to die was her brother Shen Yanqing, who had just called her a disaster star.
The whole government was waiting for her to bow her head and admit her mistake. Only she knew that the time of death was not a curse, but a murderous plan that had already begun. The sacrificial vessel can only give dead names, deadlines and fragments. The real answer depends on her to find it inch by inch from incense ashes, carriage ropes, old accounts and genealogy.
But every time she saves a person, her death date comes one step earlier; every piece of evidence she finds adds another layer to the old case of the Hou Mansion.
From the foreign concubine whom no one believed, to the one who had to wait for her to speak, Shen Zhaowei had to find out who was sending the Hou family to the guillotine step by step before the sacrificial vessel completely cracked.
