Synopsis of the story: For a hundred years in Tai'an, the court seems to be peaceful, but undercurrents have already penetrated the streets and alleys; Lu Mingzhao, the criminal prosecutor in charge of the Xuanjing Division, is in charge of the world's criminal and prison mystery cases, specializing in investigating unsolved cases between the government and the public.
A fatal tea case, a severed finger hiding a secret, a corpse-swapping mystery, a mysterious trace in the canal... Each of the bizarre murders is an independent closed loop, each one seems to be the work of a murderer in the city, but when the investigation goes deeper, it all leads to the power struggle in the court and the secrets of nobles.
Small crimes in the city hide the big picture in the court, and the dead hide the greed and delusion of the living in silence; there are layers of perjury, manipulation within the game, killing with borrowed knives, and graft. Behind every perfect murder, there is a well-planned power hand.
Lu Mingzhao is cautious and dismantles the situation layer by layer. He seems to be redressing the injustice case by case, but in fact he is hiding in hiding. He holds the emperor's secret card and is not in a hurry to win or lose. He just waits for the person behind the scenes to fully surface.
A volume of dust-sealed documents reveals all the unspeakable and bloody truth about the government and the public in Tai'an.
