Jinglan Que

In the ninth year of Chongwen, a major military food shortage case broke out in the northern border. Several officials died or were imprisoned overnight, which was known as the "Duanping Case" in history. Ten years later, the methods of an imperial examination fraud case were exactly the same as before. Shen Yan, the owner of Shumo Bookstore in Beijing, is gentle and elegant, but he knows the old criminal cases well; Gu Qingyan, the prime minister of Dali Temple, traced the new case and found shocking annotations in the fragments left by his father; Xiao Yuelan, the daughter of Duke Jing, holds the intelligence dark network and watches the undercurrents under the court with cold eyes. When the daughter of the imperial physician asks for help with secret records, when the white crane lantern holding the file is lit up in the Zhao palace late at night, when a simple fraud case involves military rations, poisoning, forged patterns and palace secrets - everyone realizes that the old case that has been dusty for ten years has never really ended. The chess game has been set long ago, but the person holding the pieces is hidden in the mist. This time, can the counselor hidden in the ink shadow uncover the truth of the injustice amidst the stormy waves?