Strange Tales of the Tang Dynasty: Su Wuming Awakens the Art of Bird Command from the Start

Su Wuming, a top history student, transmigrates one day into the body of Su Wuming, a county magistrate in the Kaiyuan era of the Tang Dynasty. He also comes with a transmigration perk: [Bird Taming].

It isn’t some talent that requires arduous cultivation, but an instinct as natural as breathing. Sparrows are his spies in the streets and alleys, crows his sentries in the night, and falcons in the clouds his far-seeing eyes overlooking all living things.

While his future partner, Lu Lingfeng, a vice minister in the Secretariat, is still baffled by the “Chang’an Red Tea Case,” Su Wuming has already pinpointed a drug-making den in the ghost market, guided by the sparrows’ reports.

While everyone is trapped at Gantang Inn, suspicious of the twin brothers, he has already seen the secret of the buried body in the backyard through an owl’s eyes.

Lu Lingfeng: “Su Wuming, how do you always get there one step ahead?”

Su Wuming smiles faintly. “Perhaps all the sparrows in this land enjoy a little chat with me.”

From the murderous intent of The Stone Bridge Painting to the palace conspiracy of The Human-Faced Flower, and then the astonishing illusion of The Tower That Reaches the Sky, Su Wuming relies on this invisible “heavenly net” and his insight beyond his time to make his way through the Tang Dynasty’s tangled and treacherous mysteries.

This is a legendary detective tale, effortlessly written by a modern soul using birds across the sky as his brush and strange happenings in the High Tang as his canvas.