Picture of Torture

During the reign of Yongjinghe, laws and regulations were complete and trade routes were prosperous, but there were many undercurrents under the court. On a snowy night in Yunzhou, a woman died in an abandoned temple. Scholar Wei Shubai held a bloody knife and confessed. The case file was impeccably organized. However, the young clerk Shen Zhaolin saw an out-of-season epiphyllum in the palm of the deceased, and also saw the first crack between the law and the truth. He failed to save the person who should be saved, but he drew a "punishment map" from then on: connecting people, objects, places, time, and evidence to reveal the hidden lines outside the files. From the unjust case in Yunzhou to the Jinling Money Bureau, from the Huaishui Cao Gang to the powerful people in Chang'an, from the lost scent of spices to the undercurrent of the grain market, Shen Zhaolin and his companions pursued the case together, and finally approached the huge dark network that uses law as a tool and human hearts as a chessboard - Wuxiangmen. Punishment is like a cold night, and pictures illuminate everything. If the truth only unfolded for a moment, he would trace the last shape of the flower before it withered.