Twin-Realm Magistrate: I’m a Detective in the Dayong Dynasty

At nineteen, Zhang Qingshan arrived in Jincheng with two hundred yuan for travel expenses, looking for work to earn his tuition. While pulling the night shift at a convenience store, he stumbled onto a series of medicine thefts. He kept watch all night and caught a teenager, who told him, “I’m not the only one stealing medicine.” His pursuit of the culprit led him to a third alley, where a knife slashed across his chest and its back struck the half of a dragon jade pendant hidden against his body. When he opened his eyes again, he was wearing his convenience store uniform and flip-flops, sprawled outside a county yamen a thousand years in the past. A female constable held a knife to his throat. He got himself out of trouble by using evidence at the scene to solve a major granary case. From that day on, he used the jade pendant to travel between two worlds, solving cases and hunting down criminals. The dragon pendant was the key; the phoenix pendant was the lock. A thousand years ago, the complete lock had been shattered into seven pieces, scattered across both worlds. Each fragment was bound to a living person, and each one drained its owner’s life essence to keep itself alive. But the rambling words spoken by the scavenger who gave him the pendant were the true key to his fate. Thirty miles west: travel between two worlds and survive through the cases. Open this book, and you’ll discover how a mountain boy who hasn’t even set foot in college uses modern forensic thinking to outclass the people of the past and solve cases; seven separate stories behind the seven phoenix fragments, each holder concealing a secret they don’t want anyone to know; and how a bottom-rung migrant worker ultimately becomes a magistrate charged with guarding the boundary between two worlds.