Strange Cases in the City of Gods

Luoyang, the sacred capital, is experiencing the first signs of autumn. A mystery involving the royal family, the rebels and an old case from twenty years ago has drawn into the whirlpool Di Renjie, the young minister of Dali Temple, Bao Zheng, the Qingtian detective, Song Ci, the forensic doctor, and Huang Ba, the secret agent of the Shangfang Department. The secret room of the Princess Mansion, the blood characters on Zhongnan Mountain, the poisonous mist of aconitine... After peeling off the layers, the most secret conspiracy of Wu Zetian in his later years was revealed - the eldest princess, in order to save the imprisoned royal bloodline, did not hesitate to use the disappearance of the prince as bait to lead to the mysterious case of aconitum twenty years ago. And Bao Zheng's unexpected involvement has made the truth even more confusing: is he Qingtian who came to investigate the case, or is he a survivor of the old case? When the princess's conspiracy was shattered, Bao Zheng fell in a pool of blood. The people erected monuments for him, incense ashes condensed into movable type, and green smoke rose from Zhongnan Mountain... Everyone thought he was dead, but they didn't know that this was just the prelude to the immortality of the sky. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.