Your Honor, I'm a Frail Woman. How Could I Dare Kill Anyone?

Fu Ruo'er was the name she had given herself. Her mother always called her a wretched girl, and ever since childhood, she had known she would have to kill someone.

She succeeded, but lost her purpose in life along with it.

Until she arrived in Tongyang City, where she found a new goal.

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Tongyang City was the ancestral home of Chancellor Tang, a veteran official who had served three dynasties. After Chancellor Tang died of old age, his legitimate grandson, Tang Baijian, returned to his hometown with the rest of the clan, accompanying the funeral procession.

Far from the turmoil of court, he thought he could live a peaceful, carefree life from then on. But one murder after another began taking place in the little city of Tongyang...