After traveling through time and becoming the most unpopular seventh prince in Da Chu, Shen Zhaoyin originally thought he would just have to eat and wait to die.
Until the emperor's birthday banquet, the Minister of Rites died suddenly on the spot, and with the help of modern criminal investigation sense of smell, he smelled out that there was poison in the wine.
From then on, the entire imperial city knew:
His Majesty the Seventh Prince will resolve the case.
Birthday banquet poisoning, corpse hanging in a forbidden well, missing case files, destruction of certificates by the Ministry of Industry...
In just a few days, four cases were reported in the imperial city of Dachu, all pointing to a taboo name that had been erased by the royal family:
His Royal Highness Yongsi.
The late emperor's biological brother and the emperor's biological uncle.
It "died" twenty years ago, but has never really disappeared.
He was once the only successor to the old position of Supervisor.
Now that the old priests have revived and the forbidden laws have reappeared, all clues point to the place where he was imprisoned - Qingsuyuan.
In order to find out the truth, Shen Zhaoyin was involved in the entanglement of three generations of the royal family.
Surrounded by two women with prominent family backgrounds, one in literature and another in martial arts:
The chief female officer of the Supervision Department is unparalleled in wit and scheming;
The princess of the Northern Territory is the most powerful in the world.
They were not fighting for favor, but protecting him and solving the case all the way to the depths of the imperial power.
As the case continues to advance——
Eight cases in Gyeonggi, four cases in Northland, three cases in the royal family...
Each story seems independent, but is secretly locked;
Every step of the investigation leads closer to the royal family's biggest secret.
Is the prince's brother a mortal enemy or a close friend?
The bloody truth about Yongzi's expulsion came to light.
In the end, Shen Zhaoyin will face a fact that shakes Dachu:
The real murderer is never in the shadows.
He is in the light, in the deepest part of the royal family.
Reader comments
"The Shadowless Chu" is an ancient time-traveling detective novel with oriental aesthetics and reasoning tension. The author uses rigorous royal genealogy, delicate emotional descriptions and interlocking case structures to construct a "Da Chu World" that is both grand and full of human warmth. Each case has its own suspenseful clues, which lead to each other in the dark, forming an undercurrent of murder that runs through the five volumes, making readers more and more addicted as they read.
The protagonist, Seventh Prince Shen Zhaoyin, is both smart and youthful. The two heroines have their own charms: one is superb in martial arts, the other is wise and elegant, making the story naturally switch between the intrigues in the temple and the strange cases in the world. The case is not only brain-burning, but also deeply embedded with emotion and destiny. It is both enjoyable and exciting to read.
"The Shadowless Chu" is an ancient time-traveling detective novel with oriental aesthetics and reasoning tension. The author uses rigorous royal genealogy, delicate emotional descriptions and interlocking case structures to construct a "Da Chu World" that is both grand and full of human warmth. Each case has its own suspenseful clues, which lead to each other in the dark, forming an undercurrent of murder that runs through the five volumes, making readers more and more addicted as they read. The protagonist, Seventh Prince Shen Zhaoyin, is both smart and youthful. The two heroines have their own charms: one is superb in martial arts, the other is wise and elegant, making the story naturally switch between the intrigues in the temple and the strange cases in the world. The case is not only brain-burning, but also deeply embedded with emotion and destiny. It is both enjoyable and exciting to read.