Erosion of the Mirror Within the Mirror

Name: Erosion of the Mirror Within the Mirror
Author: Summer Moon

镜中镜蚀

by Summer Moon (夏之明月)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 227k Words
Genre: Mystery
Subgenre: Mystery High-Concept
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The Mirror's Erosion is a psychological crime thriller. The story begins with a series of bizarre murders steeped in ritual: each victim has been meticulously dissected, with a mysterious palm print and a tarot card left behind. During the investigation, Wang Yan, captain of the criminal investigation squad, is forced to seek help from Xia Zhiyue, a criminal profiler with extraordinary insight. As the investigation deepens, the cases lead to a psychology workshop devoted to exploring the "inner self." Using a ritual as his blueprint, the killer brutally but symbolically removes the victims' skin, hearts, and brains one by one, as if constructing a dark anatomy of "human nature." Wang Yan and Xia Zhiyue advance side by side through the maze of crime, only to gradually discover that every clue seems to point back to Xia Zhiyue herself. When the truth is revealed, the shock is beyond anything they could have imagined. This is more than a string of high-IQ crimes. It is a tragic dialogue spanning thirty years, a despairing display of identity, trauma, and reflection. When the boundary between reality and its reflection blurs completely, who should be held responsible for the crimes? And how can those who seek the truth face the collapse of their self-understanding in an endless hall of mirrors?

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