The Day I Courted the Top Courtesan, I Solved the Imperial Treasury Murders

The fifteenth year of the Hongwu era of the Great Ming, the capital. Li Li, once an elite member of the border scouts known as the Night Watchers and now a junior officer in the capital patrol, faces the most important decision of his life: a blind date. His date is Miss Zeng, the Spring Breeze Pavilion’s celebrated courtesan, whose beauty is unrivaled in the capital and whose dancing can captivate an entire city. Just as Li Li thinks he’s landed the script of a “Great Ming romance about a talented scholar and his beautiful wife,” and prepares to lie flat in shameless comfort... Bang! The doors to the heavily guarded imperial treasury swing open. A headless corpse sits upright in the seat of honor, its official robes soaked in blood. The bizarre case throws the court into turmoil. As a former Night Watcher, Li Li is swept into the heart of the storm and tasked with helping the Court of Judicial Review solve the case. No one knows that inside the body of this Ming soldier dwells a soul from the modern age. Before he transmigrated, he was a freelancer who specialized in explaining the world’s strangest crimes, a top-tier criminal psychology scholar, and a hardcore mystery enthusiast. The minister of the Court of Judicial Review: “This case is the work of a ghost. We have no leads!” Li Li: “No. Every detail the serial killer left at the crime scene reveals his psychological profile.” Looking at the Ming officials’ stunned faces, Li Li sighed. From locked-room murders to serial dismemberments, from headless cold cases to political conspiracies... It’s not that I, Li Li, am some kind of genius. It’s just that I’ve seen the methods of Ming criminals so many times in thousands of crime dramas that I’m sick of them!