Ten years ago, the Shen family of a noble family in the Qing Dynasty was wiped out overnight, but the file only contained eight words: bandits attacked at night, burned the house and looted.
Ten years later, Shen Zhiwei, the orphan of the Shen family, re-investigated an old case.
She originally thought she was looking for only the real culprit, but later she discovered that the dossier was false, the testimony had been altered, and the insiders had been purged for ten years. The massacre was never a one-night disaster, but a dark web that lasted for ten years.
The secret room on a rainy night, the headless bride, the ghost seal in the military warehouse, the corpse falling from the theater, the bells of the Buddhist temple...
Behind each independent murder case, there is a fragment of an old case hidden.
Accompanying her step by step towards the truth is the most dangerous man in the court - Pei Zhao, the commander of the Jin Yiwei.
He was cold and sharp, good at deciding between life and death, but he blocked and protected her many times.
Until she discovered——
He was also present on the night of the massacre ten years ago.
She is here to seek the truth, and he is the old evidence of living.
What they are investigating is today's murder case, and what they are chasing is the unquenched fire ten years ago.
Purpose: Shen Zhiwei, the orphan of the Shen family, searches for the truth among numerous conspiracies and serial murders in order to find out the massacre of his family that was covered up ten years ago. Unexpectedly, he discovers that Pei Zhao, the Jin Yiwei who witnessed it, is also involved. From suspicion to side by side, the two of them uncovered the shady officialdom and the conspiracy of family and country that spanned ten years while investigating the current unsolved case. They single-handedly fought against the dark web created by the powerful, redressed the injustice, pursued justice, and kept their true heart and truth amidst the machinations of troubled times.