Lin Chen, a criminal investigator with the Qingzhou City Public Security Bureau, hides an identity few know about: he is heir to a Jiangnan feng shui family. From childhood, he studied geomancy, fate-reading, talismans, and Taoist arts under his grandfather. But guided by the family motto, “Use secret arts to aid the world, never flaunt your abilities,” he deliberately kept a low profile after joining the force, content to be an ordinary, by-the-book detective.
That changed when three bizarre sudden deaths occurred in quick succession at the Guanlan International residential complex. The medical examiner could find no cause of death, and the security cameras revealed no killer. Only the strange baleful aura at each scene forced Lin Chen to bring out his family's most closely guarded skills. With a brass compass, he pinpointed the position of the killer; with a baleful-energy talisman, he unraveled the mystery. By tracing the complex's altered feng shui layout, he exposed the mastermind using dark arts to kill, attracting the attention of Zhao Gang, the team's tough-as-nails captain.
One is a veteran detective who believes in “evidence above all”; the other is a feng shui heir who uses “secret arts to solve crimes.” They should have clashed like needle and thread, but a series of bizarre cases involving feng shui curses, fate-swapping, and dark occult arts forced them to fight side by side. Pursuing the mysterious Xuanyin Society, they followed its trail from haunted old mansions to ancestral graves dating back a century, and from urban high-rises to remote mountain villages. With the rigor of criminal investigation, they pierced the fog of forbidden arts and uncovered a shocking conspiracy decades in the making.
When science meets ancient secret arts, and human evil collides with the uncanny forces of yin and yang, this detective duo vows in the name of justice to unravel the feng shui mysteries and bring the true culprit to justice!
