A murder case involving food relief led Shen Zhi to meet Yu Chao.
One is a cold and powerful official who is ordered to investigate the case, and the other is an orphan from an old case hiding in the market.
One investigates food relief, private money, and dirty things in the court; the other takes revenge on murder cases, Jianghu, and old debts.
From the corpse case in the grain shop to the Fukou killings, from the black market in Chishui to the suicide of Zangfeng, from the golden poison in Wuling to the heavy gold in Jiujing, the old case of the Gu family that was convicted of treason fifteen years ago is revealed step by step.
The queen mother, the prince, the relatives, the inner court, the Jianghu sect, everyone has left traces in the old case, and everyone wants to let the truth continue to sink in.
Shen Zhi wants to find out the guilt.
Yu Chao wants to liquidate everyone.
When the case came to an end, Shen Zhi discovered that what he really cared about was not the court nor the truth.
But the person who has long been prepared to die with the old hatred.
Intention: People should still keep their sobriety and bottom line in the midst of old hatred and pain, and not let themselves become a part of hatred.