Jiuyou Case Notes: Unsolved Case Records Behind Ten Strange Tales

In the early years of the Republic of China, the Peking Police Department had a cold yamen—Jiuyou Archives Section—that specialized in handling "extraordinary cases." Chief Shen Yuan appears to be a criminal investigation expert who has returned from studying abroad, but in fact he is a descendant of a family in Xiangxi that excises corpses and is proficient in yin and yang taboos. In the past ten years, he has taken over ten unsolved cases that are entangled with folklore: The murder of skinning on the night of the winter solstice, the glass lamp in the belly of a pregnant woman, the weird nursery rhymes on the funeral road, the marks in the dressing mirror, the murder of twins, the consumptive ghost holding an umbrella on a rainy night, the living paper puppets in the paper shop, the ever-burning lamp in the morgue, the beggar knocking on the bowl late at night, and the ancient mirror hiding another "self"... Every case is a life and death battle. Every strange story hides a truth. And behind all the cases, they actually point to the same name—— The woman who was sent to death row by Shen Yuan himself twenty years ago.