[Two Powerful Leads + Mystery and Investigation + Eastern Fantasy + Heartbreaking Twists]
In the water towns of Jiangnan, a series of face-peeling murders sends shock waves through the court.
Each corpse is found beside strange ink marks, and all the victims are descendants of the Lantai Poetry Society from twenty years ago.
Lu Yanqiu, a newly appointed Ink Guardian, bears a natural ink mark on his right hand and can revisit fragments of history preserved in ink. Sent south on a mission, he meets Su Wanyun, an embroiderer who can see the colors of people’s emotions.
One tracks down killers with ink magic, the other probes emotions through spirit embroidery. Together, they discover that the Painted-Skin Demon is not the real culprit. It is merely six wronged souls, stripped of their faces and sealed inside paintings. And the mastermind is none other than Lu Yanqiu’s most revered master, Shen Qianshan, head of the Wenyuan Pavilion!
He wants Lu Yanqiu’s ink mark so he can activate a forbidden formation and erase the truth of Jiajing’s usurpation from history forever. Even crueler, Lu Yanqiu’s mother, imprisoned for twenty years, is the very creator of that forbidden art...
When the Painted-Skin Demon tears away its disguise to reveal six grief-stricken faces; when his master raises the butcher’s knife and says, “I’m doing this to save the country”; when the truth of history must be buried along with the memories of millions, how will Lu Yanqiu and Su Wanyun wield ink as a blade and defend the truth? History books can be rewritten, but people’s hearts are not so easily deceived. This is no demon’s doing. It is a human calamity.
Use pen to break the situation and use ink to maintain truth. Ink can record history but cannot change history!
This book is so enjoyable to read! The setting of the ink technique is very novel and has many reversals. Please update it soon.