Random Words Startle People

On the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the corpse of a woman in Binghu Lake contained a jade plaque with the word "Lan" in her mouth. Xie Heng, the female recorder of the Ministry of Punishment, and Shen Yan, the commander of the Jin Yiwei, are old acquaintances entangled in the blood feud between their fathers, and are forced to join forces to hunt down the murderer. From the Meilin Palace to the mansions of powerful people, the series of strange murders all point to the old case of the "Jiangnan Poetry Society" that was bloody suppressed eighteen years ago. When the bloody riddle of "Luan, Jiang, Nan" emerged, they discovered that the murderer's goal was not only revenge, but also - regicide! Deep inside the palace, the twin secrets, the Gunpowder Plot and the belated trial are about to trigger a bloody storm sweeping the government and the public.