The Strange Casebook of Cangling

Cangling City.

A bizarre incident has occurred at a fertilizer plant. Two bloody holes mark the victim’s neck, all the blood has been drained from his body, and he has shriveled up, his limbs as stiff as iron. The crime scene is spotless, with no clues or traces left behind. What could explain this strange death?

Twenty-four-year-old Lin Yan is the last heir to a family of exorcists. Armed with his police academy diploma, he joins the city’s criminal investigation unit. He wants to fulfill his grandfather’s final wish, but even more than that, he wants to uncover the truth behind the massacre that wiped out his entire family twenty years ago. A string of bizarre cases soon erupts, all connected to an organization known as the Black Witch Sect.

Su Qing, the 26-year-old beauty of the criminal investigation unit, is a staunch atheist. At first, she suspects the strange new recruit, but time and again he shatters everything she thought she knew. As the two work side by side, where will their relationship lead?