My name is Lilith, and I run a detective agency specializing in cases that are "not quite scientific."
The sound of children laughing in a haunted house in the middle of the night, pale fingers reaching out from an antique mirror, an embroidered shoe from the Republican era appearing out of nowhere at a wedding: to other people, these are supernatural incidents. To me, they're just another day's work.
Until one day, I passed out with a high fever while investigating a case in an abandoned theater. When I woke, Lu Li, who ran the antique shop next door, was holding my hand. The warmth of his palm was proof that he'd kept watch over me for three days.
He said, "I've been waiting for you a long time."
I thought he meant he was waiting for me to get better.
Only later did I learn he'd been waiting for me for a thousand years.
He was the first judge of Fengdu, and I was the reincarnation of the Plague Goddess of the Underworld. He'd secretly loved me for an entire cycle of rebirth, while I knew nothing about it. More absurdly, I had an older brother who was the King of Hell and ran a law firm in the human world, and a younger brother who was a Black Impermanence in disguise as a high school student and called me "sis-in-law" all day long.
And the biggest problem was that my subordinates from a past life had rebelled. The Plague Demon was searching for me all over the human world, trying to seize the power over plague and overthrow the Underworld.
He made a public announcement: "Plague Goddess, it's time to return to your rightful place."
But as I looked at the lively human world outside my agency window, Lu Li's gentle gaze unchanged after a thousand years, and my big brother cooking in an apron, a side of him I'd never expected to see...
I said, "No. I'm not going to be only a deity or only a mortal. I want both."
The daily life of a detective, the duties of a deity, a love that waited a thousand years, and a slightly unconventional but warm family.
