A man desperate to die. A woman desperate to live.
Zhang Yao, the feared Commander of the Northern Pacification Bureau, spends his days executing criminals without mercy and his nights sleeping inside a coffin. Beneath his cold exterior lies a single obsession: finding someone who can kill him.
Then he comes up with a ridiculous idea—bring home a condemned prisoner and have that person do it.
On the day he chooses his target, the imperial court is preparing to execute the Right Minister of Justice, who has shocked the entire empire by revealing that “he” is actually a woman. Awaiting a brutal death, she notices the grim-faced commander carrying nothing but a bucket and a cleaning rag.
She will do anything to survive.
He will do anything to die.
As their fates become intertwined, they are drawn into a world of hidden truths, corrupt officials, and ordinary people struggling to survive. What begins as a bizarre bargain slowly becomes a story of redemption, sacrifice, and two broken souls saving each other in the most unexpected way.
