Records of Dream Divination

The Dream Divination Record is built around two timelines and a pair of cases, with three irreplaceable relationships woven through as an undercurrent. It tells how a young man who loves detective novels has his innocence taken from him by the truth, and how an upright official of the Qing dynasty comes to admit that even an honest judge can reach the wrong verdict. Love cannot reduce anyone’s sentence, and sacrifice cannot cleanse false evidence. Some people protect evidence out of love; others fabricate it out of hatred. And two hundred years later, someone reads a reply at last and learns that an ancient person had spent the rest of his life waiting for them.

This is a long-form mystery with two protagonists, and the beginning of a series of linked stories. The first volume’s thirty chapters will solve the Gu Chongshan locked-room case, the death list case involving a group restoring ancient books, and the old case from the Northern Bureau’s ancient-book archive eighteen years ago. They will also explain why Robin was awaited by Gao Tingyao, and how Wan’er knew his name. As for whether the dreams connect to the past or to a personality preserved through writing, the answer will come later.

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