The Second Season of Judge of Song Dynasty

Plot Synopsis

In the first year of Duanping in the Southern Song Dynasty, a sudden flood brought to the surface a shocking secret that could have caused the collapse of the Southern Song Dynasty in an instant. Everyone in the imperial court was in a state of panic. Through the investigation by officials like Song Ci, the identity of the bones gradually led to Zhao Yang, a member of the imperial clan who had been designated as the crown prince by the late emperor. At that time, after Zhao Yang died of illness in Huzhou, his body was transported back to the imperial mausoleum of the Song Dynasty for burial. So how could his jade pendant be on the body of a corpse in a desolate grave? To find out the truth, Song Ci requested an imperial decree to open the coffin of Zhao Yang for an autopsy. This coffin-opening, which shocked the court and the public, indeed revealed a shocking secret. The white bones in the tomb of Crown Prince Zhao Yang back then turned out to be those of a fake female corpse.