She Pleads Not Guilty

On the day Shen Zhili is dragged before Yuncheng’s court, everyone expects her to bow her head and confess. She is accused of poisoning her fiance, driving her stepmother mad, and burning down the Shen family ancestral hall. But before the cold young judge Pei Ji, she refuses to plead guilty and turns the trial into a public reckoning. Beneath the Shen family’s polished respectability lies Ren’an Hospital’s buried seventh basement, where human experiments, old betrayals, and living victims are still waiting to be named.