[Dream of the Red Chamber Fan Fiction] [Mystery and Political Intrigue] [The Rise and Fall of a Family]
On the night Lin Ruhai dies, a bookkeeper is found dead in the Lin residence's medicine storeroom. A medicine chest is missing, and half a salt certificate has appeared.
Lin Daiyu has just returned to Yangzhou for her father's funeral when she discovers that someone has tampered with his belongings. The Jia family wants to take her back to the capital, the Salt Transport Office wants to confiscate the official documents, and someone else has their eye on the last of the Lin family's silver.
Shen Yan, a poor scholar, breaks into the medicine storeroom to investigate his adoptive father's old accounts. He and Daiyu start with a corpse and three hundred taels of silver, then follow the trail to switched letters, an emptied salt warehouse, and secret accounts the four great families have all helped conceal.
One must protect the Lin family's property; the other must uncover the truth about the Shen family's old case.
They thought they could leave once they solved a murder. They never imagined that behind every entry in the ledger, someone's life was at stake.
The accounts must be settled, and people must live.
Anyone who uses the nameless to fill a hole in the books will have their name nailed to the courtroom door by Shen Yan.
