Shen Zhaoye, the chief criminal officer, died seven years ago in an old murder case. When he opened his eyes again, he was already in the righteous village on a rainy night in a barren mountain, with a bronze lamp in his wrist that would not go out.
There are only eight words written on the lamp wall: Entering the village at the third watch, judging life at the fifth watch.
Five coffins, six living people, and a pulseless but talking bride. Every time there is a wrongful conviction, everyone will return to the beginning of the rainy night; and the names written into the case files will die earlier than the bodies.
Shen Zhaoye, female detective Qin Shuying, and Xie's old servant Lu Wenzhou broke into the lanterns and re-examined the old cases that had been erased: the old name of Yizhuang, the ban on banquets at Chaodeng, paper-man county magistrates, and the bells in the snow temple... What they were investigating was never about ghosts, but who could rewrite the case file, and who could make the name die before the body.
The closer he got to the truth, the more Shen Zhaoye discovered that his name had already been written in the first death case.
