In Yongjiang County, forensic examiner Shen Du recognized the person she had raised on the autopsy table.
The dentures had been removed, and her blood pressure medication had been replaced with sedatives. Her adoptive mother, found dead in the bathtub, had not died by accident. She had been silenced.
Before she died, her adoptive mother had someone pass on a message: "Your mother didn't abandon you. If you touch anything involving the Shen family, people will die."
It all began eighteen years ago.
June 3, 2008. The rooftop. Her younger sister, Shen Nian, fell to her death. Before she fell, she pushed Shen Du away and softly asked, "Shen Du, do you recognize me?"
Shen Du never had the chance to answer. From that day on, someone sealed away her memories.
Their mother, Shen Jing, had watched her younger daughter fall with her own eyes. That very night, a sedative was injected into her, and she was taken to the hospital, where she remained for eighteen years.
When her mother was discharged, she left behind just one sentence:
"The Shen family's fate is gone. It lies in that piece of jade. It will take two members of the Shen family to put it back together."
Shen Du is a forensic examiner. She doesn't chant spells or perform rituals to soothe the dead. She only uses a knife.
She dug open the well in the backyard of the Shen family home. At the bottom were accounts, letters, and something no one had ever seen.
Clutching the piece of jade in her hand, she went to find the other half.
Whoever held that piece of jade, the person who had waited a hundred years for the Shen family was waiting for her to put it all together.
The knife is cold, and fate is unyielding. Putting the jade together means risking her life.
Pure mystery, no romance. A female forensic examiner who seeks only the truth, not love.
