With a poker face like an NPC, Zhang Ping once stumbled into becoming a successful candidate for the imperial examination thanks to his knack for solving cases. The emperor personally appointed him magistrate of Fengle County. Bathed in the radiance of an auspicious star, he gets caught up in a new case as soon as he takes office. What begins as a simple murder leads to a mysterious ancient tomb and the legendary treasure within. Where will the stone coffin that floated in a well years ago, along with the cryptic diagrams and verses, lead? A prince is assassinated and goes missing, while foreign envoys plot in secret, stirring up one shock after another. All the bewildering clues are but illusions. What, then, is the truth?
