At first, the people of the capital scoffed at the woman painter who had joined the Court of Judicial Review. “A woman should stay at home, tend to her husband, and raise her children. Spending all day with men is a disgrace.”
They fell silent only after a string of bizarre murder cases rocked the capital: victims with their faces mutilated and bodies dumped, a skinning case outside the city involving swapped faces and altered bones, and the disappearance of a young bride from a prominent family. The woman painter solved them all with her peerless portraiture skills. Ning Xuan was reborn believing she had a revenge story in store and could coast to victory with her memories of her past life. Instead, she was bound by contract to a portraitist System. To stay alive, she had to pose as a painter and solve the capital’s mysterious cases alongside her old nemesis Gu Heng. But she never imagined the day would come when her secret identity would be exposed in front of him…
