Episode 1: Yang Caiwei encounters a family massacre

Today, Princess Changle Liu Qing is meeting friends with paintings to celebrate the festival. Liu Qing sits in the pavilion, and the young masters below paint her. The one who paints the most lifelike is Pan Hui, the second son of Pan Tingwei.

Everyone praises his amazing brushwork and talent. When they are about to announce that Pan Hui is the best painter today, a carriage slowly drives in. Shangguan Lan, the richest man in the capital, drives the carriage.

Everyone is very curious about the identity of the person in the carriage. It turns out that he is Pan Yue, the eldest son of Pan Tingwei’s family and Pan Hui’s elder brother. He was just promoted to censor last month and is now one of the most famous figures in the capital. Pan Yue saluted Liu Qing to express that he was late, but he was willing to continue painting in the limited time.

Liu Qing praised Pan Yue’s paintings, and he became the undisputed top painter of the day. The Pan family intended to marry Pan Hui and Liu Qing, but Pan Yue interfered today, and Pan Hui was so angry that he went to his father Pan Jin to complain when he returned home.

Pan Yue was calm, because he just wanted to know the whereabouts of a person. Pan Jin decided to tell Pan Yue the whereabouts of that person, but from today on, Pan Yue would have nothing to do with the Pan family. The woman that Pan Yue had been thinking about for ten years was named Yang Caiwei, a corpse collector at a charity cemetery.

Yang Caiwei specializes in finding the final resting place for people who have died but no one has collected their bodies. However, everyone in life avoids her for fear of bad luck. She is disliked because of a long scar on her face, and even children call her ugly. Yang Caiwei’s master is Lao Jiangtou, the former coroner of the county government.

For many years, he has been obsessed with determining the cause of death and finding the murderer. Yang Caiwei was called to the Li’s house in the east of the city to collect the bodies. Yang Caiwei hurried there but saw that the house was dark and there were more than a dozen bodies lying in the yard.

Yang Caiwei thought it was a case of family annihilation, but she didn’t expect that they all committed suicide. Yang Caiwei saw that the dead here committed suicide in pain. What made them so painful?

There has always been a legend in Heyang that the peddler is haunted. The county government wanted to characterize it according to this, but the owner of this family is the owner of Yinyu Tower, so even if the ghost is asking for life, the ghost who is asking for life must be found. Yang Caiwei hid in the corner and suddenly heard a rattle sound, which scared the county government.

Yang Caiwei said that they committed suicide, but the county government, which was eager to close the case, caught her as a scapegoat and wanted to force her to sign and seal. Yang Caiwei was dissatisfied and tortured her.

She was just a madman’s apprentice, and no one would care about her life or death. But at this time, Pan Yue appeared in front of the dying Yang Caiwei like a god, saved her, and took her back to his home. Yang Caiwei recognized Pan Yue as a childhood playmate, but she didn’t dare to recognize him. She even threw away the jade pendant that Pan Yue took out.

Yang Caiwei denied her identity and left after leaving the money for medicine. However, Yang Caiwei was unwilling to stand idly by the tragedy of the Li family, so she went to the Li’s house in the east of the city when it was dark and windy at night.

Yang Caiwei found that they were indeed poisoned, but what kind of poison could force them to commit suicide at the same time? Yang Caiwei checked the food and found that there was no poison. At this time, a figure approached and Yang Caiwei hid under it.

The person who came was Pan Yue. He wanted to help Yang Caiwei investigate the case, but when she cut open the belly of the deceased, Pan Yue couldn’t help but run out. Yang Caiwei found beef in the stomach, which was not on the table.

The sound of the peddler’s drum sounded again. There was a rumor in Heyang that the sound of the peddler’s drum was a sign of death, but Pan Yue split the wooden beams on the house and found that it was just a hamster. This mechanism was obviously man-made, because soon a group of men in black broke in to kill them.

Pan Yue protected Yang Caiwei and left Li’s house. Pan Yue persuaded Yang Caiwei to pack up and leave quickly, but she was unwilling to leave with the name of a murderer. Pan Yue was willing to protect her, but there was a condition, that is, to let her find the jade pendant she had lost.

Yang Caiwei searched in the pond all night and finally found it, and Pan Yue took her to investigate the case. Pan Yue from the capital caused discussion among the people, and Yang Caiwei, who was sitting next to her, became the target of public criticism.

Yang Caiwei looked down on herself and said that someone like her should not sit with him, but Pan Yue said that beauty and ugliness, nobility and inferiority are not judged by appearance, which was what Yang Caiwei said when she was a child.