The Guqin Opens the Spirit Realm: From the Start, I Contract a Vengeful Spirit Musician

[Supernatural + mystery + transmigrate + single heroine + two worlds, ancient and modern]

Down-on-his-luck investigative journalist Xiao Yi unexpectedly comes across a charred ancient zither, never imagining that

A vengeful female musician with skin as smooth as jade, dressed in a sheer palace gown, is sleeping inside it. Her first words are, “Living person, get out,” and she promptly kicks Xiao Yi into a county office from a thousand years ago!

Forced to travel between the past and present, he steps into one baffling mystery after another, each seething with resentment: bloodflies devouring hearts, seven children demanding lives, human eyes embedded in a soul-subduing pillar, blood-red porcelain from the imperial kilns...

Other transmigrators rely on a System. Xiao Yi relies on playing the zither.

Other people bring along living girls; the girl he brings is a vengeful spirit.

As he searches for clues in the modern world, he also battles resentful spirits, breaks evil curses, and uncovers a shocking conspiracy buried by history a thousand years ago.

When the truth finally comes to light, Xiao Yi discovers that everything is tied to a scheme laid a thousand years in the making...