The Strange Cases of Daye: The Bones of a Thousand-Year-Old Beauty

In the Great Ye Dynasty, autumn of the thirteenth year of Jian Ning, two major events took place in Yi Province. First, Second Miss Xie, Xie Er, fled her arranged marriage and disappeared. Second, the Prince of Qin's residence hired a young adviser of exceptional talent, Wang Bu'er.

That same year, a drought struck Liang Province. Countless refugees wandered the land, and the people were driven to eat their own children. Yet the silver the court sent for disaster relief turned to stones overnight. Was this the work of nature, or of human hands?

The Wang family's Record of Strange Tales, passed down for who knows how many generations in the modern era, carried Wang Bu'er, this generation's head of the Wang family, into this chaotic age. From then on, she was caught up in one inexplicable and uncanny case after another. She is both Xie Er and Wang Bu'er. Let us see how she uses her wits to outmaneuver corrupt officials and uncover the truth behind the strange tales, layer by layer. And where should she go from here?