[Historical mystery | intense push and pull between equals | fated enemies | mutual salvation | twists and turns in the power struggle]
Fifteen years ago, the family of the capital’s richest man was massacred.
Fifteen years later, the tycoon’s son, Yan Qinghan, has risen over countless corpses to become a cold-blooded, powerful judge of the Court of Judicial Review.
Meanwhile, Shen Nanzhu, the son of the murderer from that case, bears the “blood of a sinner” and has been reduced to a lowly constable under the Jingzhao Magistrate, suffering every kind of abuse.
A bizarre case involving the deadly drug Cold Food Powder brings them face-to-face in the morgue.
Yan Qinghan makes a show of dropping an order of transfer and forcibly brings Shen Nanzhu into the Court of Judicial Review as his personal judicial aide.
The entire court waits to enjoy a spectacle of torment and revenge.
Shen Nanzhu, too, walks on eggshells, convinced he has fallen into the hands of the King of Hell.
Who could have guessed that Lord Yan, who promised to skin him alive and break every bone in his body, would shield him from hidden attacks at the crime scene,
then, when Shen Nanzhu is humiliated by powerful aristocrats, draw his sword and cut off one of their arms. “He’s my man. Who do you think you are to touch him?”
As they follow the poison case, the shocking secrets of the great clans gradually come to light, and the truth behind the massacre fifteen years ago proves to be entirely different from what they believed.
When Shen Nanzhu, covered in blood, steps in front of Yan Qinghan, the lofty Lord Yan’s eyes redden.
He pulls him fiercely into his arms. “This time, you’re not getting away, even if you die trying.”
