While he was in Macau, Pan Yiming unexpectedly receives a will from his father. They haven't seen each other in 30 years, still father left Pan Yiming with a huge hesitance, asking him to attend the funeral in order to inherit it. Pan Yiming returns to the small village in southern China, where he founds out his former lovers, daughters he has never met, and some residual memories and intricate secrets.
It tells the story of two elite policemen, Luo Song and Gao Chuan, who works together to investigate the truth behind the accident which caused their teacher and benefactor, Cheng Feng Hua, to pass away.
The high-ranking officials in Chang'an wanted to see the masterpiece of the painter Su Daoqing-"Hell Picture". At the same time, there were a series of lbizarre murders based on the "dreadful prophecy" of the picture of hell. For a time, the theory of "Heaven's Punishment" in Chang'an City was widely spread. Detective Di Renjie and his assistant Siniang were framed by the murderer, and hunted down by Ouyang Ping, the chief of the Dali Temple.