Blades of Filial Deceit

In Tang Dynasty Changshu, Magistrate Guo Simo is hailed as a paragon of filial piety after slaughtering livestock during a forbidden month to save his ailing mother. But when cynical investigator Wei Zhao traces the bloodstains, he uncovers a cold-blooded murder masked by ritual, a corpse buried under the altar of virtue, and a media machine controlled by power-hungry eunuchs that turns a killer into a hero and butchers the truth. Every incision of his scalpel challenges the comforting lie that humans are born good.