The Burning Glory Case Files

Part One: The Tale of Zhuohua: The Bronze Sparrow Token

Seventeen years ago, the Prince of Zhenbei and his wife died on the northern frontier. Their orphaned daughter, Xiao Zhuohua, was raised by the empress dowager, and by eighteen she had become the wildest princess in the capital. She and Pei Yun, an assistant minister at the Court of Judicial Review, went from finding each other insufferable to entrusting each other with their lives. Over the course of ten years, they solved ten bizarre cases, including the ghostly fires that killed children, puppets made of human skin, noblewomen drowned in an abyss, bodies that exploded, and a vengeful minister. Every case brought them one step closer to the truth behind her parents’ wrongful deaths. But when all the clues finally converged, they discovered that the other end of the web spun over seventeen years was tied to the wrist of Xiao Jinghuan, the reigning Prince of Liang.