Bone Reader: Strange Tales and Eerie Records

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[Power couple + two male leads + mystery and the supernatural + Republican era + redemption + mutual devotion + one-on-one] A sharp-tongued top, a poker-faced bottom, bound by fate. Guaranteed happy ending.

In the twenty-fifth year of the Republic, strange incidents plague Tianjin. A celebrated opera performer goes mad the moment he steps onstage. A pawnshop owner hangs himself in the dead of night, a smile on his face. Cargo ships at the docks arrive packed with faceless corpses... Shen Yan has the supernatural ability to read minds through bone structure. He makes his living judging people's character by their bones, but a case involving a sculpture carved from a living person's bones pulls him into a deadly vortex. The victims' bones are covered in the long-lost Sutra of Deliverance from Suffering, and the only person who can decipher the bone script is the mysterious forensic doctor Lu Jin, rumored to be able to nurture spirits and discern wrongful deaths.

Shen Yan's bone-reading art can see through the obsessions in people's hearts, but it cannot reveal the secret Lu Jin hides beneath his cold exterior. Lu Jin's spirit-nurturing art can summon vengeful ghosts to testify, but it cannot recover his own lost memories. Forced to work together, the two investigate from a sealed opera-house chamber to an ancient temple in the wilderness, from the secluded mansions of the wealthy to an underground ghost market. Behind every bizarre case lies a massacre from twenty years ago, the burning of the scriptures and slaughter of a temple, deliberately covered up...