While performing an autopsy, Su Wantang, a female coroner in the Great Yin dynasty, touches an ancient corpse that has not decayed in a thousand years and unexpectedly gains the ability to "hear the dead," reading the final memories of the deceased. To uncover the truth behind her father's wrongful death, she is forced into the struggle among the royal princes for the throne. With every body she examines, she takes on the lingering obsession of another restless soul. As those obsessions erode her mind, she must choose between the truth and madness. Meanwhile, the disgraced crown prince who feigns insanity seems to be using her to gradually expose a shocking conspiracy spanning three generations.
