Two Souls: You Investigate the Living, I Judge the Dead

The body is intact, yet eighty pounds of its weight have vanished without a trace! The aloof forensic pathologist Su Wanqing is at a loss. “This makes no sense!” Inside my mind, Xie Xuan, a Ming dynasty Imperial Guard who has been residing there for four hundred years, scoffs. “Fool. This wasn’t murder. It was life-force siphoning!” The next second, wearing the face of a rookie cop, I speak with the authority of my ancestor: “The deceased’s brow is darkened, and three souls are missing. The culprit isn’t human. An evil cultivator is behind this! You investigate cases in the world of the living. I’ll interrogate souls in the underworld!” Before the words have even left my mouth, the Yin-Yang Detective System activates! From then on, one body, two souls. I, Jiang Che, become the strangest legend in the police force! I track surveillance footage while he reads feng shui. I check fingerprints while he reads a person’s fortune. I use forensic logic, and he uses arcane techniques! A locked-room mystery? I’ll summon a ghost and let the victim speak for themselves! A wealthy family’s curse? One sunfire talisman to break the evil, and I’ll burn every trace of darkness away! As the icy female pathologist’s worldview crumbles again and again, and the heiress of an occult clan falls for the “ancient man” in my mind, I discover that every bizarre case points to one terrifying cult of evil cultivators: the Deathless Way. And the secret they’ve sought for a century turns out to be identical to the cause of death of the Imperial Guard in my mind, four hundred years ago! A shocking conspiracy spanning four centuries slowly begins to unfold. I speak for the living, and he speaks for the dead. With our two souls working together, there’s no case in the world we can’t solve!