Su Wuming’s Chang’an Mystery Files

A strangely shaped foreigner's house in Jinggong Ward has become the center of a shocking tale of man-eating, with seven people devoured in succession. Is a vicious spirit lurking inside the house, or is someone behind the crimes? At Mingquan Mountain Villa in Chang'an's southern suburbs, one dangerous murder follows another. Who is the killer? Zeng Quanyi, a wealthy Chang'an guild leader, is murdered in his study, with its doors and windows shut, by a visitor who entered in full view of everyone. The study is then engulfed in flames. When the patrolmen and servants put out the fire, all they find among the ruins is Zeng Quanyi's charred corpse. The killer, meanwhile, is found half a mile away on Qu Street, his head smashed in. A hermaphrodite who presents as a woman learns massage and uses the pretext of treating women to assault countless victims, only to be murdered at home. Yet the prime suspect has a flawless alibi...

These are the bizarre cases that take place in Chang'an while the young scholar Su Wuming is there to sit for the imperial examinations. The authorities are at a loss, so watch as the inexperienced Su Wuming parts the mists and captures the real culprits!