Cui Yuanxia of the Hidden Mist

A series of cases involving female victims unfolds behind the scenes of the city. Su Qiran, an investigative journalist, joins forces with criminal police officer Tang Qi, therapist Ye Manyin, corporate legal counsel Zhao Zhiyao, and social media operator Fang Yichen to pursue the truth from different perspectives. Five storylines serve as both main plots and subplots, unraveling a web of power, desire, family ties, friendship, and social pressure. Each volume focuses on a different case, using a cast of characters whose stories diverge and intertwine to reveal the real struggles, growth, and survival strategies of women in the modern city. The story steadily builds, with self-contained subplots that also echo one another, eventually converging on a huge secret hidden beneath the city's veil of mystery.