"A crimson sedan comes to collect people on rainy nights. Everyone it takes is someone who deserves to die."
I, Lu Wenxiu, am a newcomer at the Dali Temple, born with the ability to see the threads of cause and effect connecting the dead.
To solve an unsolved case, I personally altered the killer's memories, only to discover that my own name had become the next one in the casebook.
The vengeful spirit in the crimson sedan laughs at my naivety: "The curse your mother cast with her life was meant to switch you out at the altar."
And the very people I swore to protect are now raising torches to make my soul vanish forever.
Fine. I'm done serving in the Soul-Seizing Office.
Starting tonight, I'll turn the world of yin and yang upside down, and the "truth" you have so carefully worshipped...
I'll turn it all into incense offerings for a godslaying ritual.
[Memory Manipulator × Unhinged Vengeful Spirit × Behind-the-Scenes Reader Villain]
[Every case solved strengthens the enemy]
Memory-altering investigations + metafictional godslaying + Chinese supernatural folklore aesthetics
Lu Wenxiu, a newcomer at the Dali Temple, can see the threads of cause and effect connecting the dead. He alters memories to solve unsolved cases, only to discover that the world is a novel and its author is about to write him as a tragic supporting character.
1. [Golden Finger] Memory Alteration (three stages, with the price of use being the gradual transformation of his body into palace flowers)
2. [Worldbuilding] Three nested layers (the Surface World / the gap between yin and yang / the narrative layer)
3. [Villain] Dual bosses (his future self trapped in a cycle of reincarnation + an author who abandoned the story)
4. [Structure] Linked standalone cases (one case every 3-5 chapters, suitable for short-drama adaptations)
