Republic-Era Strange Case Files: The Dao Investigator

Lin Mo is a modern-day university student who learned Taoist arts from his grandfather from childhood, including talismans, formations, and yin-yang vision. He is obsessed with detective novels and has a sharp, logical mind. After transmigrating, he becomes Shen Mo, a low-ranking cop in the Jiangcheng police station during the early Republican era, in the 1920s. The original Shen Mo was timid and often bullied. In the turbulent Republican era, old and new ideas collide. Technology is backward, but the supernatural is real: ghosts, monsters, and practitioners of arcane arts hide among ordinary people, most of whom dismiss them as nothing more than legends. Using modern criminal investigation techniques alongside Taoist arts, he solves cases where human malice and supernatural forces intertwine. At the same time, he must establish himself at the police station, deal with schemes from various factions, and uncover the truth behind his transmigration.