(Carina Lau) Before ascending the throne, he built a three-hundred-foot tower. Before the completion of the project, there were murders one after another: Jia Yi, the Minister of Works, and Xue Yong (Liu Jinshan), the minister of Dali Temple, set themselves on fire one after another. The overseer, Shatuo (played by Leung Ka Fai), said that the two were punished by heaven for moving the amulet of the Heavenly Pillar. At Dali Temple, Shaoqing Pei Donglai (played by Deng Chao) and Empress Wu's personal bodyguard, Shangguan Jinger (played by Li Bingbing), were ordered to investigate, but Lu Li, the national teacher, pointed out that Di Renjie (played by Andy Lau) should investigate the case.
Empress Wu ordered that the eight-year-old Di Renjie be released as an imperial envoy in charge of the case, but was attacked by assassins. Fortunately, he was prepared early, and accompanied by Shangguan Jinger, he was able to escape. Di Renjie ruled out the suspect, Li Xiao (Yao Lu), the king of Langya, and rejected his promise to fight against the Empress Wu. Di Renjie discovered that the poison of the red flame beetle was in the body of the deceased, so he led Pei Donglai and Shangguan Jinger to visit the ghost market at night, hoping to get the truth from the mouth of the former imperial physician Wang Lv, and did not want to be ambushed. Escaping is difficult.
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