1956. Kaoshan Village, deep in the mountains of Northeast China, is snowed in.
Shen Qingci, a sent-down youth, opens her eyes and immediately stumbles into a murder blamed on a fox spirit.
An old woman lies dead in her home, three claw marks on her neck, the window paper torn, fox fur scattered about...
The whole village is terrified, weeping and insisting it's divine retribution.
Only Shen Qingci sees through it all: there is no fox spirit. Someone is pretending to be a ghost!
To protect herself, she sets out to investigate the case...
She recruits an artist as a teammate, whose skilled brush recreates the crime scene;
She brings a hunter on board, whose martial prowess conquers the perilous mountain wilderness.
A three-person team, dedicated to cracking bizarre cases rooted in 1950s northeastern folklore!
A fox spirit's wedding, a deserted village borrowing a life, a ghostly shadow at a mountain temple, a corpse rising on a snowy night...
While others fear ghosts, she tears apart the sinister schemes and kicks the real culprit to the ground!
Before long, everyone in the Xing'an Mountains knows:
That sent-down girl is scarier than any fox spirit!
A cool-headed heroine outsmarts her foes + two powerful male leads backing her up + bizarre cases in 1950s Northeast China + episodic mysteries
