The Tianshan Moonlit City: A Tang Dynasty Coroner Clears a Decade-Old Injustice

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The Great Tang, the Western Regions, at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains.

A city that has stood for sixty years.

Her name is Shen Mingyue. Daughter of a disgraced official. She fled for ten years, and now she has returned.

On her first night in the city, a Persian merchant dies. No wounds on his body, but his lips are curled in a ghostly grin.

On the second night, a spice merchant dies. The same smile, the same manner of death.

On the third night, a Turkic deputy envoy dies. Thirty-seven knife wounds.

The whole city says it is haunted.

She opens her autopsy kit and brings down a silver knife. In the dead man's fingernails, she finds a speck of purple powder.

Moon-Soul Incense.

At the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, it grows only behind her family home.

Her entire family was slaughtered ten years ago.

The killer is still out there.

That carefree young master Pei Zhao keeps turning up at crime scenes. He smiles, drinks, and flirts with her. But hanging from his waist is the other half of the jade token her father left behind as he lay dying.

The pieces fit perfectly.

She draws her knife.

“Who are you?”

“Someone who should have died long ago.”

The Turkic army bears down on the city.

Someone opens the city gates from within.

The advisor waits for her in the firelight, seated in a wheelchair.

“Miss Shen, you are smarter than your father. But unfortunately...”

The fourth corpse has her name clutched in its palm.

Shen Mingyue. Long time no see.

Examine corpses. Solve cases. Clear the innocent. Kill.

A silver knife speaks for the dead.

An isolated city conceals the truth of ten years.

She wants him dead.

He wants the city.

Beneath the Tianshan Mountains, under the bright moon.

No one will leave alive.

The Tang Dynasty's Western Regions. Tianshan's Moonlight City. A female coroner. A former dynasty's prince. Thirty-seven bodies. A ten-year-old miscarriage of justice. The secret of a city.

Turn to the first page, and you won't be able to stop.