Embroidered Bone

In Linchuan City, dead people and old things cannot fill the last stitch. The embroidery master Shen Jianyue just knows how to make up. On their wedding night, bride Liu Sanniang died in the bridal chamber wearing a bloody wedding dress. Her husband's family said she was immoral and ashamed, so she committed suicide to protect her reputation; the government was eager to get involved, and the women's association persuaded her parents to shut up. The old embroidery village repaired the bloody clothes overnight. Shen Jianyue put the last stitch on the wedding dress, but saw the deceased tearing open the lining before dying. She didn't want to die. She wanted to rip the name out of her clothes. Shen Jianyue and Pei Zhao, a civil servant from the state government, investigated the bloody wedding dress case and gradually discovered that Liu Sanniang's death was not caused by ghosts and gods, but a conspiracy between the clan to gain face, the government to be stable, the women's association to gain fame, and the merchants to gain profits. At the same time, the "Hundred Acupuncture Manual" left by Shen Jianyue's mother also revealed an anomaly: the name-removing acupuncture method on the blood wedding dress had been seen by her mother ten years ago. At the end of the volume, Liu Sanniang's case has been solved temporarily, but the real deal with her old name has just been revealed. Pei Zhaogeng was accidentally called another name in the old corridor of the state capital: "Xu Xiaolang."