Azure Haze and Smoke Feathers

Historical romance, mystery, alternate world, BE. Qing Yuan Zheng, head of the Qingyan Society’s branch in Suiyue City, a criminal organization, dies under mysterious circumstances. Constable Chen Zhiyan is drawn into the case by a strange girl named Liu Qingyu, only to uncover a village massacre in Shu from fifteen years ago. As the investigation progresses, the legendary Seven Killers, members of the Fifteen Sects, Ghost Path Gu Masters, and the [Red Soaring]… People and organizations Chen Zhiyan considers utterly absurd appear one after another in the course of his investigation. Why did the Seven Killers massacre the village? Why do the Fifteen Sects want to kill Liu Qingyu, who can barely defend herself? Are the elusive Ghost Path Gu Masters friend or foe? Why has the legendary [Red Soaring] reappeared in the martial world? And who is the masked man, so cold and lifeless that he seems less than human? Is the person Liu Qingyu has been searching for alive or dead? All of this repeatedly plunges Chen Zhiyan, who had been content to coast through life, into desperate and terrifying crises where his life hangs in the balance. Years later, outside a tavern in Shu at dusk, he says with a faint smile, “If everything could go back to the afternoon I met her, and I’d refused her utterly unreasonable, absurd request, my life would probably have gone smoothly, with everything turning out just fine… But I’m incredibly grateful that, that afternoon, I said yes to her…”