In the winter of the twelfth year of Chenghua, a charred corpse wearing a fourth-grade official uniform appeared in the Gongyuan of Shuntian Prefecture. Pei Zhao, a member of the Jin Yiwei family, was ordered to investigate the case, but it involved an old case from the examination room ten years ago, the missing blood jade inkstone given by the emperor, and a secret transaction in the palace that shook the country. When a serial murder case intertwined with the Jiangnan salt smuggling case, Pei Zhao found himself stepping into a huge network that spanned the government and the public. In the left hand is a poison-stained silver needle handed over by the childhood sweetheart Su Heng, a medical girl, and in the right hand is a blood-stained secret letter handed over by the daughter of the deputy minister of the cabinet. In the shadow of the dragon bed, the pair of gold-embroidered python pattern boots are slowly approaching...
Concept: Can a person remain intact within a festering system?