Synopsis

On the night of the Lantern Festival, a bizarre bloodbath descends from nowhere. Di Renjie stakes his own life as a bond and steps alone into a web of deceit. Pushing through layers of mystery, he tracks the killer step by harrowing step. He cracks a series of linked crimes, sees through the obsessions of the human heart, and finally exposes a shocking twenty-year conspiracy, a Khitan spy hidden deep within the court, ready to shake the empire to its core. A game of life and death. The truth stands revealed. And heaven and earth fall silent...