After a murderous and bizarre palace coup, an eunuch and three palace ladies who witnessed the bloody coup quietly sat together in the palace. They have a mission on their shoulders. Someone outside the palace wants to record this secret history of the palace in order to spread it to future generations and make the truth known to the world.
The four people sat together and wrote down orally the secrets of what they had experienced in the past three days. With each other's words, the four people actually spliced together the historical truth of this eternal mystery "The Sound of Axes and Candles" that they thought was born in the bloody storm.
Just as the four of them were sorting out their manuscripts, something strange happened in the palace. The four people hurriedly escaped from the heavily guarded palace, looking at the tall and dark city wall, wondering if they could take the manuscript containing the four people's hard work and recording the truth of the historical mystery out of the city. . . . .