The Black Lotus's Growth Journal

Jiang Shui Mi’s life motto was “repay evil with kindness,” until her fake-sweet best friend shoved her into a mass grave. Reborn, she finally understood: kindness without teeth is just weakness. From then on, with an autopsy knife in one hand and sweet-and-sour fish in the other, she solved bizarre cases and drove her enemies up the wall.

The scheming old foxes at court expected the cook to make a fool of herself. Instead, the smiling young woman cut open a corpse and asked, “Would any of you gentlemen care to try this ‘Happy Evisceration’?” Later, the history books would record that the Jade-Faced Yama had three tricks for solving cases: playing dumb, acting cute, and being utterly unreasonable. Only Xie Sigou knew that she would brave an underground palace alone to save an orphan, then sneak into the morgue after closing a case to make little funeral wreaths for the dead.