In the twelfth year of Yong'an of the Great Zhao Dynasty, a series of murders occurred in Tongcheng, thousands of miles away from the capital. The whole city was terrified and did not dare to leave the house at night.
What the people in the city were afraid of was not the dead people - it was the fact that each corpse had identical copper coins stuffed into its mouth.
This matter quickly spread to the capital. The tea cup on the dragon table was smashed to pieces, and the ministers knelt under it and did not dare to breathe. Xiao Zhuo, the youngest minister of the Ministry of Punishment, was ordered to conduct a thorough investigation, but all the clues pointed to one place - Baiguzhai.
There is a woman living in the Bone House. No one knows where she comes from, and no one knows her real name. They call her - Mrs. Bones. Some people say that she can hear the voices of the dead, while others say that she is a dead person who was sent to the earth.
Xiao Zhuo saw her for the first time. She looked at the corpse in front of her with a sneer on her lips, as if she was listening to a boring joke. Sensing someone approaching, she slowly raised her head, her eyes slowly sliding over Xiao Zhuo's face. Then, she grinned, and Xiao Zhuo frowned subconsciously - this was the first time he felt that the smile of a living person was colder than that of a dead person.
The second time they met was when the fourth corpse was being moved to the Bone Palace, he passed by her, and she looked up at him with a calm and sharp gaze: "You will be the next one to die."
