The Moon Sets and the Crow Crows

In the autumn of the seventeenth year of Wanli, by a spring in Tianping Mountain, Suzhou, Lu Mingke, the most dazzling young swordsman in the Jiangnan martial arts world, was pierced through the heart by his own sword. His face was peaceful, and there was no trace of a struggle at the scene. The man was determined to have committed suicide. The Suzhou government is about to close the case, and all the evidence is tight. However, Wujiang County Magistrate Zhuge Zhe - a descendant of Zhuge Liang who was known for solving cases like a god - discovered a hair-thin celestial silk at the crime scene. This almost invisible thread led to an old case that had been buried for eleven years: In the seventh year of Wanli, at the same place, a young woman wearing a plum blossom hairpin died by a sword in the same way. Her face was destroyed and her identity was unknown. The case was suppressed by mysterious forces and has been suspended ever since. With Zhuge Zhe's in-depth investigation, the secrets between the three generations of masters and apprentices in Luomeiju gradually surfaced - the taciturn eldest disciple Song Boyuan, the reclusive master Shen Wenqiao, and the dead woman Su Wanqing. Lu Mingke tracked down the truth before he died, but he did not choose to expose it. Instead, he used his own death to set up a sophisticated trap to force someone to speak. Sky silk, plum blossom hairpin, a copper coin with "Master, I don't blame you" engraved on it... All the clues ultimately point to a sword technique called "Smoke Dispersing". This style is not a swordsmanship to kill, but a swordsmanship to die. When the truth was revealed, everyone fell silent - because the real murderer was the deceased himself. This is a murder case without a murderer, but it makes everyone alive unable to have a clear conscience.