Preface
My name is Chen Haoran. I'm twenty-two and just graduated from a vocational college.
In a city packed with people, I'm the very picture of an ordinary person at the bottom of the ladder.
No degree from a prestigious university, no family connections, no high-paying job offer, no useful contacts.
I studied property management at City Vocational College. In plain terms: manning the gate at a residential complex, fixing pipes, watching security cameras, and cleaning up messes.
After graduation, my classmates went to factories to work on assembly lines, delivered takeout, took shifts in property management, or worked supermarket checkouts. But my job was different: solving old paranormal cases in the city, laying wronged and vengeful spirits to rest, and cracking unsolvable mysteries among the living.
Everyone thought I was unemployed, slacking off, doing nothing, and wasting my days in a rented apartment.
Only I knew the truth:
Other people's vocational college lives were about scraping by for a diploma, killing time, and getting enough to eat.
My college life was about navigating yin and yang, life and death, and justice in the mortal world.
To ordinary people, the city meant busy roads, neon lights, towering buildings, and bustling streets.
To me, it meant unsolved cases everywhere, wronged souls throughout the city, strange things lurking in the shadows, and mysteries at every turn.
In this prosperous city of millions, every old building, every street, every run-down rental apartment, and every forgotten blind spot in a security camera's view concealed a paranormal case that no one investigated, no one solved, and no one dared touch.
The police could enforce the law, but they couldn't investigate the worlds of yin and yang.
The law could judge the living, but not the wronged dead.
Only I, Chen Haoran,
with my own down-to-earth, forensic-style approach to paranormal mysteries, relying not on cheat powers and mindless killing, nor on overpowering everything without a thought, but on details, logic, and traces,
