To Kill a Songbird

Thirteen years ago, when Li Fuyuan was a child, her family was destroyed, and her elder brother was wrongfully killed. She has grown up in the years since, and she returns to Huachang County to avenge him. The county magistrate there is Lu Yanchong. He carries himself as a frivolous man with nothing to offer. The two start out suspicious of each other. Then Lu Yanchong's real identity and his reasons for being in Huachang come out, and Li Fuyuan begins working alongside him on the county's cases. The cases are hard ones, and there are several in a row. Among them is the Thrush Case, the one from thirteen years earlier.