The Beauty’s Fair Hands

[Historical mystery + deduction + criminal investigation + 1v1 romance + misunderstandings resolved] [A Grand Court of Justice deputy minister with a split personality + a beautiful county lady who tracks killers through trace evidence] [Slow burn, with the cases as the main focus and romance as a secondary thread]

Qin Zhuo, daughter of the Grand Princess, fell in love with Xie Yiwen at first sight. She used her family’s power to pressure the Xie family and finally got her wish. But their married life was far from happy. In their twenty years together, she and the deputy minister saw little of each other. He had someone else in his heart, and was often away on official business. They treated each other with courtesy, but had no affection for one another.

Fortunately, Qin Zhuo was far from clumsy. She was exceptionally gifted and had a photographic memory.

To help the man she loved solve cases, she scoured the land for obscure methods and spent three years learning “hoofprint tracking” from shepherds. She spent ten years reading books on every branch of forensic medicine and homicide, studied one hundred thousand Grand Court of Justice case files, and learned to discern the big picture from the smallest details.

She mastered every skill needed to solve crimes, all because she loved Xie Yiwen and hoped they could work together as a married couple. In the end, however, they grew apart. She had tried for twenty years, only to end up with nothing. All her hard-won skills proved useless in front of the man she loved.

Later, Qin Zhuo developed an interest in solving cases of her own, but died while pursuing a killer.

When she died, Xie Yiwen had just found out where his beloved Zhu Sisi was and brought her home to recuperate. By then, Qin Zhuo had lost all hope. She was reborn on the night of her wedding, twenty years in the past. That same night, a serial killer committed a murder... Case One: The Girl Butcher; Case Two: The Haunted Mansion; Case Three: The Poetry Society’s Self-Immolation...