Strange Shadows

A historical costume mystery and revenge drama.

Modern forensic pathologist Su Yan is swept away by a space storm and transmigrates to the Great Heng Dynasty. At an ancient temple on Mount Xi, she encounters Xiao Qingyuan, who wears a human-skin mask and uses blood magic and illusions to create visions of slaughter. Xiao Qingyuan is the orphaned daughter of a princess and a great general. Her family was massacred by Grand Tutor Wei Song, and she uses dark sorcery and ingenious traps to slaughter his henchmen in revenge. Wei Song's son catches a glimpse of the heroine's true face and falls desperately in love with her. But she is consumed by the blood feud over her family's murder and mercilessly destroys her enemies' forces, one step at a time. Once the wrongful case is settled, she rejects his infatuation. Wei Lingchuan, utterly bereft, retreats to a remote, desolate wilderness to live in seclusion, while Su Yan travels the world with instruments for investigating the supernatural, probing one bloody, bizarre case after another.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.