During the Sheng Tang era, in the Tianqi years, a sinister plot lurks beneath Chang'an's splendor. Xie Qingyan, the Xie family's legitimate daughter and chief investigator of the Imperial City Office, is as beautiful as a celestial maiden. Though languid, she commands a striking presence and is known as the “Jade-Faced Cat.”
On her first day in office, she encounters a bizarre murder. The victim's death is uncanny, and the clues are baffling. As court politics shift and the martial world grows treacherous, a series of cases leads to a shocking conspiracy that could overthrow the dynasty.
During an autopsy, she unexpectedly gains a supernatural ability: catlike eyes that can see the final moments of the dead, even turn back time by three seconds, sense emotions, and unravel sinister plots.
This power helps her solve one strange case after another and uncover mysteries of the supernatural. She navigates power struggles and demonic creatures with ease, becoming the most dazzling solver of unsolved cases in the Sheng Tang era.
She meets ruthlessness with wit and wins people over with her beauty. Possessing both beauty and intelligence, she advances step by step from layers of suspicion to the heart of the truth, outshining countless men.
In the end, she will use her catlike eyes to uncover a century-old curse, turn the tide, protect the Sheng Tang dynasty, and become a legendary woman detective.
