The Sinful Buddha's Strange Cases: A Female Imperial Guard Who Kills Buddhas When She Meets Them

The Case of the Sinful Buddha: A Female Embroidered Uniform Guard Kills Buddhas and Demons Alike tells a story that opens with a bloody murder at the capital's top embroidery workshop, Splendid Pavilion. Su Axiu, a highly skilled embroiderer, is found murdered in her workshop in an utterly bizarre fashion. Her blood has been used to complete an unfinished embroidery of A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix. Threads and blood vessels intertwine in a horrifying scene of "living threads stitching a soul." Shen Qingchuan, a female captain of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, is ordered to investigate. Drawing on her extensive knowledge of medicine and poisons, she determines that the victim was precisely bled to death while fully conscious. The killer used a special drug to keep her lucid so she could experience the most excruciating pain. The method was both brutal and meticulously ritualistic. The heroine, Shen Qingchuan, is a captain of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, skilled in medicine and poisons. The male lead, Gu Changyuan, is a deputy commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard and the heroine's political protector. The male lead, Li Wuhuan, is the master of Forgetting Worries Pavilion and the core of its intelligence network. Together, the three solve one bizarre case after another: mysteries, strange cases, forbidden cases, special cases, and more. Every clue points to the extremist group Sinful Buddha. Under the banner of "purifying the mortal world," it uses secret arts to create murder scenes and eliminate those it considers "impure." Its plot to target powerful officials at court and shake the foundations of the state is gradually coming to light. Each case stands on its own, yet Sinful Buddha's infiltration ties them into a closed loop. As the cases are solved one by one, the hidden identities of Shen Qingchuan, Gu Changyuan, and Li Wuhuan, along with the secrets of their pasts, are revealed. Meanwhile, Sinful Buddha's schemes to manipulate power at court and across the realm also emerge one after another.