
Chronicle of the Strange
照诡录
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 543k Words
- Genre
- Mystery
- Subgenre
- Female-Channel Mystery
- Updated
- 14h ago
- Source
- Fanqie
Synopsis
Other names
- The Xuanjian Office Is Working Overtime Again Today玄鉴司今天又加班了Alternate title on Fanqie
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"Zhaogui Lu" is an excellent suspense novel for women. It breaks the conventions of traditional romance works and uses a unique "no CP" perspective to show the wonderful story of five women with different personalities working side by side to solve crimes in "Xuanjian Division". The novel perfectly integrates unit cases with the main plot, creating a strong suspenseful atmosphere with a compact and lively pace. Its core concept is profound. Through the unique perspective of "Zhaogui", it deeply analyzes the dark side of human nature and the desires behind the machinations. The author's writing is exquisite, the characters are vivid and three-dimensional, and the plots are interlocking, building a grand world view. It not only has logical beauty, but also demonstrates the power of women. It is a sincere work worthy of five-star recommendation.
"Zhaoguilu" is a suspenseful masterpiece with an all-female group portrait with great tension. It abandons traditional romance routines and uses a pure "no CP" perspective to show the heroic appearance of five women with very different personalities working side by side to solve crimes in the ancient "Xuanjian Division". The novel cleverly interweaves semi-unit cases such as "The Horror of the Palace Banquet" with a long hidden main line, creating a strong suspenseful atmosphere and a fast pace. The most touching thing is the idea: Although it is called "Zhaogui", its core is not to capture evil spirits, but to use this mirror to gain insight into the human heart, which is more unpredictable than ghosts and gods. While solving hard-core puzzles, the author deeply analyzes the desires behind the machinations and the darkness of human nature. It is a sincere work that combines logical beauty and female power.
This is a novel with the theme of ancient mystery and criminal investigation, which is full of suspense and thrilling. Three people died laughing at the palace banquet. Princess Shen Zhaoming gathered four strange women: Leng Wuzuo, Chatty Taoist, Dumb Shadow Guard, and Poisonous Sword Cultivator, who specialized in investigating the world's most mysterious cases. However, one case after another, the more they investigated, the more frightened they became. The beginning of the novel is full of suspense. Thirty years after Emperor Yanchang ascended the throne, he held a banquet in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, inviting relatives of the emperor, civil and military officials, and envoys from various countries. Shen Zhaoming sat in the corner, holding a wine glass, while his eyes swept around the hall. The banquet lasted until late at night, and everyone dispersed one after another. At this time, a scream came from the direction of the side hall... What a refreshing article, especially suitable for young people to read, for those who are curious, and of course for those who like logical reasoning! If it's good, just read it for a while. Unexpectedly, you forget the time as soon as you read it, and most of the day is gone before you know it. It's worth reading!
After watching it for so long. I found it to be a rare and beautiful book on suspicion. The author's setting is novel. All kinds of stunning beauties take turns. Dazzling. The plot is also very attractive. A lot of detailed descriptions, very picturesque. It makes people unable to put it down. Readers who like innovative multi-group female characters should not miss this book. Worth collecting and recommending.
The author is well versed in Chinese horror, and does not need to be explicit or bloody. Instead, he uses ancient legends, ancestral temples, and rural rumors to create suspense. Haunted houses, cursed murder cases, and vision killings, each case is wrapped in rumors about ghosts and gods, drawing readers into the mystery. But the story does not fall into the fantasy routine. The protagonist relies on autopsy, on-site investigation, human interviews, and ancient legal deductions to tear apart the illusion of ghosts bit by bit. The details of the investigation are in line with the level of ancient criminal investigation. There is no parachute knowledge of modern criminal investigation, and it has a strong sense of the times.
Your writing style is really moving, the words are delicate and measured, and the narrative is calm and restrained. You don't deliberately sensationalize, but you can always touch people's hearts in the details. The characters are vividly and three-dimensionally depicted, and the emotions and personalities are outlined in just a few strokes. The plot is laid out in a relaxed and relaxed manner, making the book extremely immersive to read. Thinking and precipitation can be seen between the lines, and the words and sentences are fluent and beautiful. It has a literary quality without being obscure or difficult to understand. After reading it, I thought about it for a long time. Many sentences are worth reading again and again. I am very grateful for bringing such a touching reading experience.
When I opened "Zhaoguilu", I thought I would walk into a spooky ghost hunting feast, but I didn't expect to encounter the obsessions and secrets of a group of people. The people who died laughing at the palace banquet were the prelude to the strange events in the Dayan Dynasty. Princess Shen Zhaoming did not believe in ghosts and gods, so she recruited a coroner, a Taoist priest, a killer, and a swordsman, and the five women formed a "Xuanjian Division". This lineup is unreliable no matter how you look at it - the coroner wants to examine human corpses, the Taoist priest talks nonsense, the killer is as silent as a shadow, and the swordsman is a rebel who was expelled from the master. But it happened to be this group of people who suddenly tore a ray of light into the fog of mystery. What impresses me most is the lingering "humanity" of these characters. They are not the heroes who slay demons in traditional stories. Each of them carries their own scars and secrets. Why does the coroner keep company with corpses? Why do Taoist priests live among the people? Behind those seemingly mysterious things, there are all grudges and old hatreds in the world. The wonderful thing about the author is that he writes "cunning" like a mirror. You think you are looking at ghosts, but in fact, you are looking at the corners of people's hearts that you dare not touch. The murder case ten years ago is like a hidden thread, connecting all the scattered cases into a big network. As the five women approached the truth step by step, they discovered that the person weaving the web was close at hand. This kind of setting gives people chills down the spine - the scariest thing is never the ghost seeking your life, but the smiling people around you digging traps for you. This book made me think that if a ghost is born in the human heart, it is harder to guard against than a real ghost. Shen Zhaoming, with her motley crew, used the most clumsy way to open each case, but what she opened was the scars that the entire dynasty had covered up. What they saw was not a ghost, but the darkness that each of us has in our hearts. After reading the book, it was dark outside the window. Suddenly I felt that there were no ghosts in this world. It was just that the human heart was too deep, so deep that even I couldn't see clearly.
"Zhaogui Lu" is a highly intense all-female group portrait suspense masterpiece that abandons traditional romance routines and uses a "no CP" perspective to show the heroic demeanor of five women with very different personalities working side by side to solve crimes in the "Xuanjian Division". 🙂 The novel cleverly integrates unit cases and long-term main lines. It has a strong suspenseful atmosphere, a fast pace, and a profound core idea - to use the "mirror of illumination" to gain insight into the darkness of people's hearts and analyze the desires and human nature behind the machinations. The author's writing style is exquisite, the characters are deeply portrayed, the plots are interlocking, the world view is grand, and it combines logical beauty and female power. It is a sincere work and deserves five-star recommendation. 🤔🤔🤔
Dedicated to "Zhaoguilu", the most amazing supernatural articles I have recently discovered! The author is very good at Chinese-style thrillers, and the scenes such as ancient houses, dark mirrors, and strange rumors in the countryside are very graphic. There are no brainless jump scares, but full of stamina and horror. The story connects various bizarre cases based on strange ancient books. The plots of each unit are independent and have hidden foreshadowing of the main plot. The logic is online, and the twists are unexpected but not blunt. What's rare is that the story is not only full of horror, but also contains human feelings and good and evil behind every strange thing. The protagonist is calm and transparent, acts with a bottom line and is not a virgin, and his IQ is online throughout the whole process of fighting monsters and solving puzzles. The writing is smooth and not laggy, the updates are stable, and the reading is immersive and satisfying. Compared with the assembly-line supernatural novels on the market, this book carefully polishes the world view, has exquisite folklore settings, and has just the right balance of horror and warmth. There are no flaws in the whole process until now. I sincerely recommend it to all book lovers who love suspense and supernatural beings. It is worth revisiting again and again!
The theme of this all-female group portrait novel is very novel / the suspense and solving of the case are interlocking, the writing is exquisite, and the plot is exciting. I couldn't bear to skip chapters to catch up and finish it. It's so beautiful that I never get tired of it. It's super, super, super, invincible and beautiful. I recommend it 👍 👍 👍