[Strong Female Lead, No Romance · Microexpression-Based Pseudo-Mind Reading · Rule-Based Ghosts and Gods · Power Plays Within the System]
[You can lie, but your face can’t.]
Su Wan, a master’s graduate in psychology and an expert in microexpressions, had barely started her first day at the Paranormal Regulatory Bureau when her partner, Gu Ye, said to her, “Come on. We have a case.”
The first case: a woman in an elevator. The security footage showed the elevator running by itself, and the guard had heard someone crying. Standing inside the elevator car, Su Wan saw a blurry figure deep in the mirror: a woman, arms folded across her chest, head bowed, shoulders hunched.
Gu Ye said, “She’s asking for help.”
Su Wan said, “She’s waiting for someone to notice her.”
Three hours later, they discovered that the woman had died a year earlier.
[People can be more evil than ghosts, but they can also be kinder.]
Midnight elevators, crying walls, the death of an internet celebrity, vengeful spirits in mirrors…
Twenty cases reveal twenty kinds of human evil.
A legal scholar, a biotech magnate, a practitioner of dark arts, the mysterious X, Mr. Eyes…
Su Wan discovers that every case points to the same web.
It's wonderful, every word is beautiful