Bai Li, the Snake Ancestor who has cultivated for a thousand years beneath Mount Qingcheng, is forced to enter the mortal world and accumulate good karma.
She thinks she can pass herself off as a low-ranking human forensic examiner and scrape together some merit working for the authorities, enough to satisfy her parents. But her very first case involves a dismemberment by a highly intelligent killer, leaving the entire criminal investigation squad stumped.
Then she lightly sniffs her fingertips. “The victim says the killer had a low body temperature and an old injury to the left knee.”
The team is stunned. They follow up and really do catch a cold-blooded criminal who matches every detail. When the captain presses her late at night to reveal who she really is, lightning flashes outside the window. She lazily flicks out an enormous snake tail and says with a sly smile, “Shh. Your station’s air conditioning is pretty nice and cool.”
