Records of Nanyang Mysterious Cases

In 1953, during a tropical rainstorm during Singapore's colonial period, the Chinese clan leader Lin Zongming died suddenly in the triple secret room of the ancient Nyonya house "Chengxinyuan" - the brass-locked bedroom, the agarwood-filled corridor, and the high wall surrounded by rainforest. Only half of the faded "Nyonya Nursery Rhymes" remained at the scene. Detective Chen Mo, a Chinese who was marginalized by the colonial authorities, was ordered to do so at the critical moment, but found that the six suspects all had secrets: the eldest daughter of the Lin family in a wheelchair, the foreign forensic doctor carrying mysterious powder, the Nyonya chef with a scar on his neck, the colonial adjutant with an empty gun, the tutor wearing the same wedding ring, and the Malay priest holding a spiritual flag. Their fathers were all closely related to the Lin family massacre twenty years ago. Deep in the ancient house, the poisonous plants in the Nyonya kitchen, the underground passages in the colonial period, the secret words written in blood in the secret compartments of the ancestral hall, and the nameless skeletons in the rainforest sacrificial altar all point to the secret code of "Nyonya Nursery Rhymes". As the mirror murder case surfaced, the cross-ethnic land disputes, the collusion of interests between the colonial authorities, and the blood exchange within the clan were revealed one by one. Chen Mo was shocked to realize that he was not only an investigator, but also the core of this revenge plan that lasted for twenty years... In the changing time trap and the psychological secret room of people's suspicion, the triple nested conspiracy is solved layer by layer, and the identity of the real murderer subverts the cognition in the reversal. When the self-destruction device of the ancient house is activated, Chen Mo must make a choice between the annihilation of the truth and the redemption of justice...