[For readers who love mysteries but are afraid of anything too scary, enjoy lighthearted comedy and shipping couples, want an easygoing ongoing read, and like something to read over a meal]
[A laid-back coroner + mildly spooky but not frightening + episodic cases + an overarching plot + wild ideas]
Modern forensic examiner Gu Zhao transmigrates into the body of the most ill-fated coffin-born child in ancient times and joins the Dali Temple as a coroner.
Her life plan: examine corpses, collect her salary, buy a house and land, and lie flat until she dies.
But something is very wrong with this place!
At midnight on her third day at work, she is dragged into the imperial palace. A corpse in a dragon robe lies on the floor, while the emperor on the throne trembles with fear. “I’m right here, so… who is he?”
Gu Zhao pries open the corpse’s eyelids and discovers that deep in its pupils, the reflection is not the killer, but the dead man’s own twisted, terrified face.
Before she can run, one case after another lands in her lap: a dead man sits up in the middle of the night and writes in blood; a missing bride holds a wedding ceremony with a skeleton in front of a grave; and a colleague beside her is replaced by a “self” that walks out of a mirror…
Even more terrifying is Huo Changyuan, the all-powerful Nine-Thousand-Year-Old. The man is sinister and ruthless, yet he looks at her as if she were a precious treasure he had lost and found again.
He has a deadly secret: every day when he wakes, he forgets who he is and can only piece together his memories by reading his diary.
Until one day, he hands her a note: “If I come to see you tonight, it means the person I am today is no longer the person you know. Kill me.”
Gu Zhao looks up at the dangerous man before her, unable to tell whether he is human or a mirror…
Only later does she learn that this world is one enormous mirror, and she transmigrated here to clean up its corpses.
Gu Zhao: “I just want to lie flat. Why won’t the corpses let me?”
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