Blood on Bamboo Slips

Changsha, 2016. Real estate tycoon Chen Zhaoyang returns to redevelop the Zoumalou district, only to trigger the unearthing of a 20-year-old arson-murder tied to a violent demolition. As he digs into the past, a trove of third-century Wu Kingdom bamboo slips surfaces, recording the mass flogging of officials for a land dispute. Chen soon realizes the ancient case of coerced silence mirrors the present cover-up, and the life he thought he knew was built on a fragile balance of blood and earth.