[Mystery and Mind-Bending Cases + Deduction + No Romance + Cultivation + Invincible]
[The plot twists and twists again. You won't guess who's really pulling the strings until the very end.]
After a century in seclusion, Ancestor Yue Li descends the mountain to uncover her origins. “Strange cases are cropping up all over the mortal world. I'll take care of them!”
Dressed in a perfectly tailored qipao and holding a bamboo-ribbed paper umbrella, the ancestor has barely entered the city when she runs into a baffling murder case: not a single member of the Zhang family's younger generation has lived past fifteen. It's a mystery within a mystery, and it's impossible to tell truth from lies.
The Soul-Binding Hair Art: the killer uses strands of the living to refine malevolent energy!
The police captain scoffs on the spot. “Little girl, don't make trouble. Superstition isn't real!”
But the very next moment, the dead man's hair suddenly shoots out in every direction, nearly tearing the interrogation room apart. The ancestor whips out a Bagua mirror, and as golden light flashes, a vengeful ghost appears. The whole thing is captured crystal clear on the security cameras.
From then on, one bizarre case after another comes knocking...
A night-market vendor's head vanishes, leaving behind only a body covered in talismans. Residents of an old apartment building keep waking up bald after a series of “ghostly hair-cutting incidents,” part of a secret scheme to steal their lifespans. In the morgue of an abandoned hospital, corpses are arranged in a strange formation, uncovering a thousand-year-old feng shui conspiracy.
When modern criminal investigation meets the secret arts of the occult, Yue Li reads bones to determine cause of death and follows qi to track down killers. With every case she solves, she gains more admirers. The police beg her to work with them, wealthy families line up to pay her, and even hidden cults flee overnight in terror.
When someone questions the ancestor's abilities, she pulls out a fragment of The Art of Face Reading. “Want to know when you'll hit a run of bad luck? Bring your ancestor a cup of tea.”
