Testimony of Old Things

Shen Zhihe was abandoned in the countryside and spent nineteen years there. Everyone assumed she was just a country girl trying to marry into a wealthy family.

Then her fingertips brushed the old wooden comb her grandmother had left behind, and a secret hidden in the maternity ward nineteen years ago unfolded before her eyes: a hand wearing a jade bangle passed a swaddled baby out the door, while someone whispered, "Send her away. Leave no trace."

She has an extraordinary ability: when she touches an old object that holds a human secret, it forces her to witness fragments of the past. Each object triggers this ability only once, and using it always exacts a price. When the resentment is deep, the dead person's suffering clings to her.

She entered the Wen family not to claim her relatives, but to investigate the death of her mother, Lin Xiu. Her grandmother said she had died in childbirth, but the order of events in the visions didn't add up.

Every member of the Wen family is guarding a secret from nineteen years ago. The man behind it all, Old Master Wen, encountered people with this kind of ability to recall the past through objects in his youth. He knows its rules and weaknesses. The moment Shen Zhihe stepped into the Wen home, she fell into his surveillance net.

Lu Jingyi, a specially appointed criminal investigation consultant for the Public Security Bureau, is the only one who doesn't think she's a fraud. She provides clues no one else can obtain; he secures the evidence and sees the case through the judicial process. She glimpses the truth, and he makes sure the law recognizes it.

She wants nothing from the Wen family's wealth. All she asks is that this wrongful death be handled through the proper legal process.