The Spring Sacrifice of Year One

"After first reading the Li Sao, then reading all of Qu Yuan's works and analyzing the various accounts in the historical records, I believe Qu Yuan was not merely a scholar-official. He was also a shamaness who took part in the state rituals of Chu, and had dressed as a boy from childhood all the way into old age."

In the first year of the Tianhan era, when the Chang'an aristocrat Yu Lingkui first visited Yunmeng Marsh in Chu, her theory stirred up the Guan clan, who had once overseen the state rituals of Chu. According to rules passed down through generations of her family, Yu Lingkui, as the eldest daughter, would serve as the "ritual shaman" who presided over the family's ceremonies, and would never be allowed to marry. During this visit, she was already on bad terms with Guan Lushen, the youngest daughter of the Guan clan. When a string of murders suddenly followed, Lushen began to suspect that this outsider was the source of every nightmare. Who was the true mastermind? Was the killer's motive connected to the rituals, or to the bloody tragedy that had befallen the Guan clan four years earlier? With her family's honor at stake, Yu Lingkui resolved to find the real culprit...