On the night of Su Zhaotang's wedding, the groom did not come back.
She opened the hijab alone and then opened the wedding quilt, only to find a bride already lying on the bed. The woman wore the same wedding dress as her, had the same bun, and even her eyebrows were carefully painted to look like her.
What's even weirder is that the corpse is holding a jade button with a missing corner in its hand. Ten years ago, Su Zhaotang personally put it into his mother's coffin.
Xie Linzhou, the young minister of Dali Temple, rushed back to the Hou Mansion overnight and sealed the door to investigate the case. Su Zhaotang can find out the words left by the dead from the corpse, powder and clothing, and Xie Linzhou can expose the lies of the living from the confessions and evidence. Two people who were married by decree and were wary of each other could only temporarily join forces.
But the more they investigated, the more wrong they became: some of the people who had disappeared in the capital over the years were not dead at all; those who had been buried long ago might be living under the names of others.
When the clues pointed back to the fire ten years ago, Su Zhaotang finally had to face a question - if it was not her mother who was lying in her mother's coffin, then who had been living as a dead person all these years?
