The Diviner Bride and the Republic-Era Detective: A Baffling Case

Aaaaah! I’m a total beginner, and I really love this kind of story, so this is my first time writing one. There are lots of things I could do better, so I hope you’ll be patient with me!

[Mystery-solving and deduction take center stage, with romance as a secondary focus]

Hu Sitao, a modern-day fortune-teller, accidentally touches a mysterious artifact while telling someone’s fortune and transmigrates to the Republican era (in an alternate setting). There, she meets Shen Juanyi, the era’s greatest detective, who runs a detective agency, and the two are brought together by a bizarre murder case. At first, Shen Juanyi is deeply suspicious of Hu Sitao’s identity and abilities. But as their investigations progress, her experience with fortune-telling and keen intuition help her crack one strange case after another, and the two gradually become partners.

Together, they become entangled in a series of baffling cases, from a dark ritual at a ghostly theater, to a wealthy family’s sinister sorcery plot in an ancient town, to a mysterious illness in a mountain village. As they solve cases side by side, their feelings grow warmer, but they also face countless trials of love and reality.

In this turbulent Republican era, they pursue the truth behind each case while struggling to move forward amid a complicated political landscape. But the future is uncertain. Where will their fates ultimately lead them...?