The Book of Heaven's Replacement

[Historical fantasy and supernatural mysteries + ingenious mechanisms and unsolved cases + dual identities + court intrigue + a powerful heroine's growth + a cast caught up in the fate of their country + defying fate]

Legend says there is a scroll called The Book of Heaven's Will that can rewrite marriages, imperial examinations, and even people's lifespans. But behind these miracles, countless commoners at the bottom of society pay a silent price.

Xie Zhaoxue was a low-ranking copyist in the palace archives, with no official rank at all.

She had eyes that could see through any forged handwriting, which she called “ink bones.”

Pei Xingzhou, Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, believed only in evidence and due process. The two joined forces over a bizarre string of murders in which the victims had no faces.

As they investigated, they discovered that a poor scholar's title of top candidate in the imperial examinations had been won by erasing someone else's existence.

They also uncovered an even more shocking truth: the emperor on his lofty throne was a paper puppet kept alive by stealing years from the lives of everyone in the city!

When the Grand Princess used the greater good of the realm to force her to write, and the various feudal princes threatened her with their swords to keep her composing a false age of peace, Xie Zhaoxue resolutely snapped the brush that wrote fate.

“Fate belongs not to a book, and a name belongs not to a ruler.”

In this life, she would reclaim every name and every life stolen from the people of the realm, stroke by stroke!