Long Night Dream

In the first year of the Wu Zhou Dynasty, Pei Shouyue, Minister of War, died suddenly in the secret room of his home. There was a cross mark on his palm and half a gray jade pendant inside his sleeve. The case file remained unsolved for ten years. In the twelfth lunar month of the tenth year of Wu Zhou, a series of strange cases occurred in Chang'an. Hu Shang was exterminated, and Yong'anfang jeweler He Lu died again - three layers of oil-impregnated mulberry paper were suffocated to death, with marks on his palms, the kit was empty, and the candle was burned out. Li Jin, the young minister of Dali Temple, has been chasing the murderer for ten years, and the new partner he has been waiting for is Meng Juexiao, the general of the Jinwu Guard. She is well versed in the art of diagnosis, examining autopsies is like reading papers, and can see people's hearts under the knife; he investigates the scene like solving riddles, and listens for thunder in a silent place. The two of them checked again and again, and the cross marks climbed from Chang'an Square to the old archives in Liangzhou, which led to the old secret room case ten years ago, and also led to the tablet of Meng Juexiao's father "died in the war against the Turks". She dug out her late father's belongings and found a green-gray jade pendant with the word "Keep the Promise" engraved on the back. In the Zichen Palace, Wu Zetian served tea and called him "son", then stepped back and left only one sentence: "Don't investigate the matter of that girl's father." The cross mark is a list, and the jade pendant is a key. What was originally contained in the empty brocade bag could completely turn Wu Zhou's ten years of snowy nights upside down. The corpse said nothing, but the traces spoke to themselves. The long night is about to burn out, and dreams are beginning to dawn.