The Tang Dynasty’s Eerie Painter

Protagonist: Pei Shaoqing, 24

Identity: A down-on-his-luck painter at the “Artless Studio” in the western market, who paints death portraits for the deceased and gods and demons for temples.

Hidden skill: He has mastered the long-lost Art of Observing the Minute.

People: He can paint what the deceased saw in the final moment of their lives.

Crime scenes: He can enlarge the tiniest traces at a crime scene a hundredfold in his paintings, such as the direction of a strand of hair or the distribution of dust.

Psychology: From a suspect’s unconscious gestures, he can paint the object they fear deep in their subconscious.

·Fatal drawback: Every time he uses this skill, he temporarily loses one of his senses, such as going blind for three days or deaf for seven.