A registered female chronicler working among the common people: a fresh concept that combines the roles of official historian, private recorder, and investigator of unsolved cases. She wears a blackwood plaque issued by the Imperial Historiography Bureau at her waist, placing her outside the official system while keeping her in a subtle relationship with it.
There are familiar roles like female coroner, female constable, and female legal advocate. But the identity of a female chronicler, with its natural association with recording events, creates a unique narrative tension with the theme of hiding the truth in popular storytelling.
This is the work's central creative idea: the stories told by the heroine are not fiction, but records of real unsolved cases that she has personally investigated and compiled. Each volume recounts an old case that has never been brought to justice, and each storytelling session is a secret act of publicly reopening the case.
This two-layer structure, with storytelling on the surface and case investigation beneath, is unlike anything else seen in the market for historical mystery fiction.
