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Tang Dynasty Mystery: Chang'an County Warden

share time: 2025-11-24 00:30:25

Li Mo (Wang Ziyi), the newly appointed Chang'an County Warden, is immediately confronted with a series of "Skin-Peeling Murders" upon taking office—victims have their faces stripped into featureless blanks, with only a half ink-stained silk handkerchief left at the scene. Su Wan (Zhao Jia), the coroner, is unusually sensitive to the case: she refuses to cooperate with autopsies and even secretly destroys evidence. When Li Mo follows her, he discovers the memorial tablet Su Wan worships late at night belongs to his senior brother who went missing three years ago! It turns out Su Wan's brother was killed by the "Soul-Stripping Cult," and she hid the senior brother's whereabouts to seek revenge; while Li Mo has been guilt-ridden for hesitating to save his senior brother back then. From suspicion to cooperation, they must solve the mystery of the "Soul-Stripping Technique" while confronting their deepest obsessions—when the cult leader targets Su Wan, Li Mo has to make a three-year-delayed choice: between truth and salvation...

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