Ping was once the youngest criminal investigation consultant in the city.
But when he investigated a string of serial murders, he was framed as the “Demon’s Son.” His entire family was burned alive on New Year’s Eve, and he was buried alive, only to claw his way out of his grave three days later.
Three years later, he returns as a “crime consultant,” taking on cold cases the police can’t solve and digging into the darkness hidden by the powerful.
From a single drop of blood, he can detect seven kinds of lies. From a wisp of ash, he can reconstruct an entire murder.
But no one knows that seventy-two “evil spirits” live inside his mind: the seventy-two criminals he personally killed in an underground prison over the course of three years.
Their memories, skills, and obsessions have become weapons of his revenge.
He helps a wealthy man find his missing daughter, then, on the night the case is closed, makes him watch as the man’s most trusted butler skins someone alive, one knife stroke at a time.
He clears a powerful family of wrongdoing, then turns around and uses a recording to bring the whole clan crashing down during a livestream.
People call him the “Devil Consultant,” but he only sneers.
“The demons you talk about are just another version of yourselves, driven into being by you.”
When the police ask him to solve a case, he says,
“Fine. But this time, the ones I’m going to convict are you.”
There are too many devils wearing human skin in this world,
so he might as well be more evil than the devil and descend deeper than hell.
Because only then can the crimes hidden in the light be repaid in blood.
