Game of the Long Night (124 episodes)
During the Da'an Dynasty, the Xie family was executed entirely in the "Treason Case", with only the sole surviving son, Xie Gu, rescued by a loyal servant at…
During the Da'an Dynasty, the Xie family was executed entirely in the "Treason Case", with only the sole surviving son, Xie Gu, rescued by a loyal servant at the cost of his life. Ten years later, Xie Gu adopted the alias Shen Yuan, serving as a Censor in the Censorate, using a devil-may-care facade to secretly investigate his family's old case. He pointed his spear directly at the cold-faced powerful official Qin Shu—the son of the chief judge back then. At court, the two stood in sharp opposition, plotting against and balancing each other. However, Qin Shu was also investigating in secret; his father had died a sudden death back then, with his dying words being only "a case within a case." A new murder case re-linked the fates of the two, and the emperor ordered a joint investigation. The sworn enemies were forced to walk together, and from undermining each other to jointly resisting assassinations, the ten-year-old grudge was finally shattered by the truth.