After passing the civil-service exam on my third try, I thought my life would be nothing but tea and a newspaper all day. Then, on my first day at work, a colleague handed me a pile of files to sort: [Class A Containment: Western Han Changxin Palace Lamp], [Class S Alert: Terracotta Army Formation in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang Showing Signs of Movement], [Top Secret: Preliminary Research Report on the Reawakening of the Dragon Veins].
Only after I nearly died at the hands of the palace lamp’s “female ghost” did I learn that the Historical Legacy Research Office I’d joined was actually the Bureau of History and Anomalies, the agency guarding China against supernatural threats! My job was to enter imperial tombs that existed only in legend and contain national treasures known as “suppressors,” powerful enough to overturn reality!
The most incredible part was discovering that I could bond directly with these terrifying “suppressors” and draw on their power. Bonding with the Sword of Goujian, King of Yue, granted me [Armor Piercing + Sword Intent]; bonding with the Plain Gauze Robe granted me [Invisibility + Deflection]. I realized this civil-service job might not be so ordinary after all.
While my colleagues were tearing their hair out over a research paper, I was already matching wills with the First Emperor beneath Mount Li. While my boss was talking in circles at the office, I held the Imperial Seal and commanded ghostly soldiers and generals! Earthly immortals, sorcerers, secret societies: anyone who threatens the foundations of China must die!
Now a new emergency assignment has come in. Blood-red inscriptions have appeared on the Wordless Stele at the Qianling Mausoleum, and the phantom of the Wu Zhou empress is about to return to the world... Wait, could you approve my travel allowance before I leave?
