The Lotus Casebook 莲花楼

INFO

• Drama Title: The Lotus Casebook 莲花楼
• AKA: The Lotus Casebook 吉祥纹莲花楼
• Origin: China
• Release Date: 2023
• Episode: 45

SYNOPSIS

The play is adapted from Teng Ping's novel of the same name.

Ten years ago, Li Xiangyi, the owner of Sigu Gate, shocked the world; ten years later, Li Lianhua, the owner of the Lotus Building, was lazy. Ten years apart, separated by the sky and the earth, the decisive battle in the West Sea that year, but finally disappeared in the world, what secrets are hidden behind the huge changes that are hard to tell?

Ten years have passed, the rivers and lakes are not as good as they used to be, the gang of fish, dragons, cattle and horses has gradually grown in strength, the dungeon of Baichuanyuan has been broken, prisoners have come out of the mountains, and mysterious cases have been reported: the ghosts under the pomegranate skirt are crying blood, and the ghosts outside the Yucheng window are haunting, is the murderer a human or a ghost? Sanskrit sounds whimper in Purdue Temple, and foxes and dogs bark in the Pagoda of Bliss, what is the truth? In Caihua Building, the golden hairpin kills people, and Guanyin weeps at the bottom of the tomb. Who is right and who is right?

Undercurrents in the rivers and lakes are surging, and the cases are confusing. A moving lotus building with auspicious patterns appears frequently at the scene of the murder, and the old people from ten years ago appear one after another. Is all this premeditated or a coincidence? Li Lianhua travels in the rivers and lakes, and repeatedly solves strange cases, a secret that has been hidden for ten years in the rivers and lakes.

***Fun Facts: Cheng Yi broke up a fight between the photographers and crew members on the set during this drama. While the two groups were fighting, Cheng jumped in and calmed them down by saying that they should stop fighting since it was just a small matter.

CAST

Main

• Cheng Yi as Li Lian Hua
• Joseph Zeng as Fang Duo Bing
• Xiao Shun Yao as Di Fei Sheng

Support

• Liu Meng Rui 
• Ivy Chen
• Wu Shi Le