Illuminating Shadows with a Lantern

The murder case at Jiuli Town Elementary School sixteen years ago destroyed more than one family.

Fang Zhaoying believes that if she can escape the shackles of being “a murderer’s daughter,” she can leave the small county town behind and break free from a life she has only half chosen. But the path Heaven leaves her grows narrower and darker, until a woman’s corpse surfaces in the Jiuli River during flood season, bringing two wrongful convictions to light...

Jealousy, rage, selfishness, greed, and lust take root in the soil of reality, flourishing under the guise of “reason.”

After her murderer father dies under mysterious circumstances, crucial evidence comes to light. The truth is buried beneath layer upon layer of fog, swallowed by endless darkness...