A Bizarre Financial Case in the Northern Song Dynasty

[Ancient Mystery + Ordinary People + Detectives + History + Financial Warfare + A Battle of Wits]

[A Bizarre Skinning Case Uncovers a Thousand-Year-Old Financial Mystery]

In the second year of the Tiansheng era of the Great Song, in Chengdu's Brocade Market.

Li Zhijin, the owner of a brocade shop, and Xu Xin, a broker who had grown up with her as her childhood sweetheart, were preparing to hold their wedding betrothal ceremony.

Overnight, the Shu brocade on their loom turned into human skin, with a head embroidered right in the middle. It was horrifying and bizarre.

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From that moment on, Xu Xin's life was plunged into an abyss.

The victim was his enemy, the suspect was the woman he loved, and the mastermind was the person he respected most...

Behind the seemingly brutal murder lay a reshuffling of interests sparked by the new currency, "jiaozi."

Only after he peeled back the layers of mystery did he realize he was nothing more than a pawn sacrificed in the game.

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Two childhood sweethearts, a currency crisis, and a commercial war