Qing Deng Breaking Prison Record

Twenty years ago, the late emperor died suddenly, and the government and the public called him "died of illness." That year, Dali Temple judge Shen Huaizhou was executed for the "corruption case", leaving behind his 13-year-old son Shen Yan and a secret letter burned until only four words remained - "The green lantern has not gone out." Twenty years later, in Lin'an County, Qingzhou, on the night of Zhongyuan, the river was full of lanterns. The young catcher Shen Yan picked up a floating corpse from the river. The deceased was wearing an old-style official uniform, his right index finger was completely cut off, and the poison in his stomach was not local. There was a copper seal hidden in the lining of the corpse's clothes. The seal was exactly the same as the one in his father's old case files. From this night on, Shen Yan began to investigate the case. Corpses floating on river lanterns, infants buried in ancient wells, poisonous rats in salt warehouses, night readings in academies, troupe changes, brides wearing bloody wedding dresses, missing grain ships, corpses hidden in pagodas... Twenty murder cases spanned states, counties, rivers and lakes, water transportation, borders, and courts. Each case seems independent, with different murderers and different motives. But until the end of Shen Yan's investigation, he will always find the same lamp in a corner—— Green lantern. That was the code for the palace coup twenty years ago. The person who killed him forged history books, purged those who knew about it, and planted a hidden stake in the court so that he could sit on the throne. And Shen Yan's father was one of the few people who knew the truth back then. Shen Yan started out as a small policeman in a remote county government. He accumulated a reputation with one case after another, entered Dali Temple, entered the Ministry of Punishment, and gradually reached the center of power. He got acquainted with Pei Zhao, a son of a down-and-out family, Gu Hanyi, a traveling doctor, and Xie Mingwei, a female official at the Yushitai. He also met Lu Chen, the deputy envoy of the Imperial City Department, who was both good and evil.